Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room law office in Cincinnati. The two young Tafts got plenty of business. Uncle Charles owned the Times-Star, and when he died Bob inherited a minority interest in Times-Star stock. He still owns it. Bob declined to join Charles in a fight to reform the corrupt city government; he strung along with the late Boss Rudolph Hynicka, used the machine's help to get to the legislature...
Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...
...come to grips with reality. Don't let the troops in Greece fire a shot-somebody might get hit. Don't worry about essential oil supplies in the Middle East-somebody might make a profit. Don't get into the China war-the government is corrupt. Don't give Western Europe a military guarantee against Russia-it might have to be kept. Don't speak up for U.S. ideals of democracy- rude persons might laugh. Stay out of the dirt and danger (where civilization will be won or lost), but drop a nice clean atomic...
...Francisco earthquake made journalistic history of a sort: he wrote six or seven columns a day for eight days, produced an account that later became a book, The City That Was. The same year, he left newspapering for magazine work, did notable muckraking on corrupt journalism (The American Newspaper), ultimately churned out some 30 volumes of fact, fiction, drama and verse...
...turned out, possession of this incalculable hope brought only bewilderment, suffering, terror and tragedy to the fisherman and his wife (Maria Elena Marques) and to their infant son. Dealers tried to deceive them; ruffians tried to corrupt and divide them. The poor fisherman had to kill to defend his treasure and his own life. In consequence, the little family was forced into always more desperate flight through swamps and desolate country. The woman knew almost from the outset that tragedy was an inevitable part of such hope as theirs. The man had much to learn before he, too, was ready...