Word: perverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mammoth U.S. corporation would blandly ignore a $6,000,000 auditing discrepancy in Antonescu's books just to get the telephone number of a boy who has taken his fancy. The boy (Barry Justice) is Antonescu's illegitimate son, and the father is dangling him as pervert bait to land a merger that may save his Depression-gored financial empire. While waiting for this rococo rotter to tot up his accounts with a final bullet, idle-minded theater partygoers may wonder, in days to come, whether this playscript was found in Terence Rattigan's typewriter...
...California citrus grower, I am in a position to know that nowhere in the world is the consumer so thoroughly protected from harmful residual chemicals as in the U.S. A pox on authors who will pervert the truth for a few lousy bucks...
...guilty to running arms to Israel, was fined $10,000, finally had his civil rights restored last year by President Kennedy. He long used the Sun in a vendetta against the late Senators Pat McCarran and Joseph McCarthy, once wrote a column in which he called McCarthy a "disreputable pervert." In taking on Sawyer, Greenspun would have some embarrassing Sun paragraphs to live down. Wrote he about the Governor in 1959: "He has exceeded our most extravagant hopes and predictions. Grant Sawyer is a man among men." Greenspun also gave his views last spring on newspaper owners who go into...
...best efforts? If in fact we are as infested with these rascals as Mr. Hoover intimates, it might occur to many people that the country needs a more efficient spy swatter. There is, Mr. Hoover says, an advance detachment of Communists within our borders with the 'capacity to pervert our thinking and destroy the spiritual supports which form the foundation of our freedom.' This is sententious poppycock. Our institutions are nowhere nearly so fragile as Mr. Hoover thinks they...
...speech Thurmond charged that official Administration censors had deleted passages of military officers' speeches "in order to blunt, confuse and pervert the words of those who would inform the public just what the cold war is about...