Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't someone defend Nixon for trying, if he did, to "cover up" Watergate? What duty does he have to advertise a scandal to the wide, wide world...
...Watergate scandal grows more incredible almost weekly, it now seems probable that an ironic twist of fate could prove decisive in determining how the President's involvement is finally perceived. The controversy that arose from the secret bugging of Democratic Party headquarters might possibly be resolved through the secret bugging of the White House, ordered by the President himself...
Most Americans think that child labor is a Dickensian anachronism that went out with sweatshops, the 60-hour week and the dark, satanic mills of the 19th century. Yet down on the farm child labor remains a national scandal. Hundreds of thousands of children are working in fields all around the country. They labor in the cherry orchards of Michigan, the peach orchards of Colorado, the tomato fields of New Jersey, the bean fields of Oregon. The practice is especially flagrant in California, the richest agricultural state. After visiting San Joaquin Valley, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss sent this report...
...lolling naked on a bed with a prostitute or two. Last week one of the Queen's Lords of Appeal, Lord Diplock, made a distinction between right and wrong with a whore exquisitely clear in his report on the national-security aspects of Britain's latest sex scandal...
...worst enemy. He had seriously damaged his credibility in 1906 with a photograph purporting to show him atop Mount McKinley-an assertion that has never been satisfactorily proved. His last great misadventure was as an oil-stock promoter in Texas, where a mail-fraud scandal got him five years in Leavenworth...