Word: scandal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...government wilted under the public outcry, and the press reported that "at last the conspiracy to hush up this scandal is breaking down." On Nov. 12, 1889, a warrant was issued for Lord Arthur's arrest, but by then he had left the country. Some experts say that he ended offering his services to the Sultan in Constantinople, where the laws were more lenient, but the present Duke of Beaufort's family has denied researchers access to the family records on their notorious forebear. As for No. 19 Cleveland Street, it was torn down in the 1920s...
...investigations got under way, university officials called Allen, who has been on a sabbatical since September setting up a teachers' college in Lesotho, an independent black nation in the Republic of South Africa. Allen flew home, surveyed the growing scandal and promptly resigned as dean, although he retained his tenured position as a professor on the U. Mass faculty...
...slowly, steadily, and then suddenly pulled Nixon down." But Safire does not make clear whether he thinks Nixon's enmity for the press caused him to tap newsmen's phones, unleash leak-plugging plumbers, etc., or whether reporters simply reacted to the hatred by overplaying the Nixon scandal. Either explanation, of course, is simplistic...
...final exam-even before the exam was handed out. Another student had complained to his professor that he could not have made a mistake on some math problems on a test because an accounting major had worked out the answers for him in advance. But now the cheating scandal at the University of Florida is out in the open, and the campus is in a furor...
Formal Charges. The scandal broke when an undergraduate told her professor that other students had bought stolen exams. (Under the university's honor code-dating to 1914-students are supposed to report cheating.) The professor checked his records, found that some D students were inexplicably getting A's, and went to the honor court. Paul Marmish, a third-year law student and the honor-court prosecutor, started an investigation; within two weeks he had filed formal charges against 63 students and said that many more might be guilty...