Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nurse asked a traditional question: "Do you know where you are?" Congressman Wayne Hays nodded. "Where?" she persisted. Slowly, stretching out the word, he replied: "Barnes ... ville." Hays had survived an excessive dose of sleeping pills, mind undamaged, and would keep his place at the center of a congressional scandal that grew still more lurid last week...
When the Watergate scandal rocked the Republican Administration, a Special Prosecutor was appointed to bring the offenders to justice...
...growing sex scandal on Capital Hill is but the tip of the Washington iceberg...
...midst of the inquiries, Second Classman Timothy Ringgold brought suit in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan to halt them. It was Ringgold who remarked, during a meeting with Army Under Secretary Norman Augustine after the engineering-exam scandal had surfaced, that cheating was "widespread" at the Point. He is now under investigation for having "tolerated" misconduct by fellow cadets...
...healthy form of editorial restraint seems to be emerging. This is to report scandal that a public figure such as Congressman Hays can be held responsible for, but not to record the misbehavior of those, like sons or daughters caught in drug arrests, whose only claim to special notice is their relationship to someone in the news. That distinction is not yet universal, but it should...