Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communication difficulties. I fully embrace the prolonged ellipsis, the parenthetical "you-know-what-I-mean" and the awkward pause. Rather than punctuate my fragmented sentences, I let them trail off into my preferred word of closure: "whatever." To the well-trained listener the frequent "like"s that corrupt my language keep an expert tempo--to the rest, I babble...
Perhaps the story's repeated usage through timehas caused the plot to appear overly trite: Amorally corrupt American man deserts his innocent,trusting Japanese geisha-wife who waits faithfullyfor three years despite numerous signs of beingforsaken. The man then returns with his newAmerican wife expecting the Japanese wife to giveup their...
...wide dispute. It is a little suspect that the award-winning president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, long an outspoken critic of the Philadelphia police and government, just happened to drive by a cop beating his brother. The Philadelphia police at the time were so corrupt and brutal that the U.S. Justice Department eventually filed a suit against them based on numerous accounts of police misconduct, including the framing of innocent citizens and the widespread fabrication of evidence...
...most valued instructors as the result of a deeply flawed process, about which they know little, and over which they have absolutely no control. This is not the first such instance. However, in this case, the other victim, the instructor himself, has bravely decided to stand up to the corrupt system. He has little chance of victory, and he has exposed himself to great ridicule, but he has decided to fight for what is right...
...officials have been broken; and the I.O.C.'s, which could result in the resignation or expulsion of as many as nine of the body's 114 members, plus sanctions for four others. These reports, due to be issued during the next several weeks, will depict a system so systematically corrupt that it might easily have blinded the good folk of Salt Lake to reality. Whether the disclosures will be enough to deprive Salt Lake of the Games or topple the autocratic--some say dictatorial--18-year regime of I.O.C. head Juan Antonio Samaranch is doubtful. But the investigations will reveal...