Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...coming of our divine Savior; 2) the days immediately preceding Christmas are invariably days of fast and abstinence . . .; 3) at many of these parties there is excessive use of intoxicating drinks. These sinful excesses cause untold harm in various ways to the participants and their families. They corrupt the morals and lower the morale of the community and the nation...
...object of Stendhal's satire is the cheap-jack kingery of Louis Philippe-that "crowned calculating machine"-and the belowstairs thimblerigging of the corrupt, bureaucrazed regime through which he misgoverned France...
...corrupt as ancient apples, well then...
...telling the story of the rise of Christianity in that era: the first official recognition of it by Constantine, the search of the dowager Empress Helena for the Cross and here success. Half the time he is "satirizing," in his old irresponsible way, the merges of the corrupt Romans of the Court and City...
Philippine reaction to the plan has been more favorable than expected. So far the free Philippine press has placed the blame for the country's present position squarely on corrupt mismanagement of affairs by President Elpidio Quirino's government. The press has welcomed the Bell Commission as a means of lifting the country back to solvency, in spite of the many strings attached...