Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linus, thou layest hold on all thou meetest; none can thy clutches miss; but with thy frozen mouth all Rome dost kiss." The early Christians obeyed St. Paul's injunction to "greet one another with a holy kiss" until the symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal. In the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves. The varieties of kisses are numerous: the kiss of treachery (Judas' example), the Mafia kiss of death, the kiss of reverence with which rabbis don their tallithim and priests their stoles. Children hold out a hurt...
...audience when he took over the paper back in 1896. Even a decade ago, you had to be uncompromisingly thoughtful to read the Times. The only relief in columns of soberly worded dispatches was a crossword puzzle or a chess problem, never a comic strip. Gossip was minimal, scandal sanitized-in keeping with the prim slogan, "All the news that's fit to print." The paper seemed edited for someone with a meticulous interest in the rise and fall of Cabinets in obscure countries. TIME, in its own parvenu days in the shadow of the august Times, used...
...town buzzing, to liven up the New York scene." Bolwell plans to emphasize hard news and breaking stories, to cover the arts, business and sports more fully, and aim the Post at "the entire middle class." Despite Murdoch's reputation for turning some of his papers into scandal sheets, Bolwell insists there is no such plan for the Post. Says he: "Rupert knows that schlock rags are not my bag. If he had wanted to turn the Post into a copy of his more sensational papers, he would have got someone with a different background. I am taking...
...Dirty Linen, a topical headline scandal has caught Stoppard's fancy. A campaign of sinnuendo has been launched in the British press implying that almost all the Members of Parliament are guilty of illicit sexual hanky-panky. A select committee of the House of Commons has been appointed to investigate the charges...
During Barrett's ordination service, another priest, James Wattley, spoke out against it as a "travesty and a scandal." Moore answered that "many persons with homosexual tendencies are presently in the ordained ministry," and that Barrett was "highly qualified intellectually, morally and spiritually to be a priest...