Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elevation of My Lai from routine to scandal to archetype took a decision from the nation, its press and its people. And the massacre became important because it was a human act, one committed by individual human beings with M-16s, bayonets, and grenade launchers, confronting a group of Vietnamese on the ground. Horror though it was, the massacre was more palatable than the real horror of the war, which is the mechanization of slaughter, the progressive removal of any elements of the human will from the act of killing. To confront Charlie Company was to confront a group...
...Michael S. Davison, 54, who formerly commanded Field Force II in Viet Nam and served as Commandant at West Point. Davison, rated by a Pentagon colleague as "a professional with a human touch," is already having an impact. After an inspection, Davison pronounced the Army's barracks "a scandal and a disgrace," and will supervise the spending of $70 million earmarked to refurbish the worst of them...
...master and choreographer who helped mold the Royal Danish Ballet into one of the world's greatest troupes; of leukemia; in Copenhagen. During his 19 years as ballet master, the former dancer choreographed such highly praised productions as La Valse, Spring, and his modern masterwork, Etudes. In 1951 scandal ended the Danish phase of his career; he was accused of taking liberties with ballerinas and forced to resign. Instead of retiring, he went to France and was soon appointed ballet master at the Paris Opera...
...earned a reputation as a progressive Governor and rapidly became the state's most popular personality. In 1958, after two terms in the Governor's mansion, Muskie ran for the Senate against the incumbent, Frederick Payne, who had had the bad luck to be involved in the Bernard Goldfine scandal...
Forgotten for the moment were the prize burnt-sugar cake, the first-place parsnips, the Ferris wheel, and other folksy pleasures of the Du Quoin state fair. In this small Southern Illinois town (pop. 6,691), harness racing fans could even forget the aura of scandal that periodically haunts the sport-such as last June's scandal at Yonkers Raceway, which involved an amazingly low Exacta payoff, indicating a betting coup. But here, at the 46th running of the Hambletonian, no betting was allowed or ever had been by long tradition. The U.S.'s most prestigious race...