Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quiz. The possibility of White House connections to the Watergate scandal was obvious the moment the names of the arrested men were revealed. They included G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt Jr., both of whom had worked for the White House before transferring to the Nixon re-election committee. FBI agents did quiz 14 White House officials, but the questioning took place only in the presence of John W. Dean III, a White House attorney asked by the President to conduct an "inhouse" investigation of the case. It should have been apparent to Gray that the presence...
...worked himself up from poverty to the federal bench, beamed with pride as he swore in his son as a US attorney. Mayor Richard Daley then recruited Kerner as a blue-ribbon candidate to run for Governor in 1960 against William Stratton, whose administration had been plagued by scandal...
...programs have not been formally scrapped, just suspended while officials ponder whether they do enough good to be continued, possibly in changed form. A case for such restudy can certainly be made. Some of the subsidy programs have been scarred by scandal. Before a belated FHA crackdown, fast-buck operators in a few cities bought or built ramshackle dwellings under Section 235, got inflated valuations from FHA appraisers and sold the buildings to unsuspecting buyers at unjustifiably high prices. In addition, the attempt to move public housing out of the ghettos and scatter it through white middle-class neighborhoods...
...well, that while waiting for a combat command, Herbert made powerful enemies executing his office of Inspector General. He investigated every scandal right up to its embarrassing conclusions. (One of Herbert's investigations was finally concluded last Wednesday, when the Sergeant Major of the Army pleaded guilty to running the "khaki cosa nostra" in Vietnam.) The two most powerful were Colonel Ross Franklin and General John W. Barnes, who became his immediate superiors when he was given command of the 2nd Batallion of the 173rd Air-borne. Herbert shrugged them off, confident that he was safest in sticking to Army...
...thanks to her. Caroline conducts a mad love affair with Lord Byron (Richard Chamberlain), submitting eagerly to such ignominious charades as playing Nubian slave to his surly prince. She thereby offers herself as a willing victim to the Romantic Agony, not to mention the subsequent shame, strife and scandal...