Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denied that it keeps a blacklist. Then someone leaked to reporters the lists of unmarriageables that the ministry had distributed to rabbinical councils and marriage registrars across Israel. The lists include more than 10,000 names. Said Ha'aretz, Israel's leading daily: "It's a scandal which no democratic society can stomach...
...embassy in Moscow; he for the third time, she for the first; in Moscow. When Spassky first announced his intention to marry the pretty French-born daughter of Russian emigres, Soviet bureaucracy said she would have to leave the Soviet Union by Sept. 30. Anxious to avoid an international scandal on the eve of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's October visit to the U.S.S.R., Russian authorities relented. Said Spassky: "Now I have an extra queen in my competitions...
Richard Grossman's diaries were hardly the hottest memoirs ever to hit the British press-no sex and scant scandal. But the former Minister of Housing and Secretary of State for Social Services, who died last year, did set down a candid account of life in Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first Labor Cabinet, between...
...earned the high esteem of fellow career agents because of the backbone he exhibited as chief of the FBI General Investigative Division in Washington, where he was in charge of the bureau's initial digging into the Watergate scandal in 1972. He and several other agents wanted to conduct an aggressive investigation that might well have led them to the White House officials who ran the Watergate coverup. But Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray was reluctant to push the probe, especially after the CIA, at the instigation of White House aides, urged him to restrict the inquiry, ostensibly...
...excellent Lino Ventura appears as your ordinary, tough, proficient hit man for hire. His job, this time out, is to shoot down a witness who threatens to "blow the lid off" a rather sensitive government scandal. The exact nature of the disgrace is unspecified, but there is no mistaking Ventura's dedication. He rents a hotel room in the French town of Montpellier and starts unpacking his sniper gear from a specially rigged suit case lined with foam rubber...