Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underpayment of taxes by Nixon, the Ellsberg burglary and other "plumber" activities, the secret bombing and the spurning of subpoenas. "Is there a connection between him and them?" The question, Rodino suggests, is "whether there was a serious abuse of power, a failure to faithfully execute the laws, scandal and disrepute in office, a perverting of the whole system...
...typical day, the committee plowed through three 250-page notebooks. There were 14 books dealing with the Watergate break-in and coverup, three for the ITT scandal (presented entirely by Jenner), three for the milk-fund case and 16 for other matters like campaign dirty tricks and Nixon's taxes. Occasionally members donned earphones to listen to one of the 19 presidential tapes obtained...
Paris has been called la ville mere du scandale-the mother city of scandal. Few scandals seemed better spiced for its Gallic taste than the one that has become known as "the Daniélou affair...
...woman Daniélou visited has remained as mysterious as the circumstances of his death. Her first name is unknown, though Canard calls her Mini. Only the gossipmongering scandal sheet Le Meilleur claimed to have talked with Mme. Santoni, who insisted that the cardinal's visit was entirely platonic. "He was fully dressed," she reportedly told the paper. "[He] collapsed after climbing the four stories to my flat." She seemed unimpressed by all the furor: "Too much fuss is being made about this quite unimportant affair...
...biggest cheating scandal to touch New York's Regents exams (named for the Board of Regents, the state's educational policymaking body) since they were introduced in 1878. The theft first came to official attention when a Brooklyn student reported that someone had tried to sell her the answers to some exams. Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold's investigators soon discovered that "thousands" of hot answer keys were being marketed by student peddlers. Detectives eventually traced the purloined papers to Brooklyn's Solomon Schechter High School, where the seals on answers stored in the principal...