Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of a 4-3 majority voting to hear a case that led to the reinstatement of a $100,000 libel judgment against TIME on behalf of Socialite Mary Alice Firestone Asher. The decision is now under review by the U.S. Supreme Court on grounds unrelated to the scandal...
Even though Watergate had some incredibly far-reaching ramifications, it nonetheless comes as a surprise to learn that the scandal played a significant role in the course of the Viet Nam War as well. In April 1973, less than three months after the Paris agreement was signed, the Nixon Administration decided to end the truce by resuming U.S. bombing raids against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. Reason: scarcely had the treaty gone into effect when Hanoi began violating it. According to a secret report to the White House, the North Vietnamese began installing surface-to-air missiles around...
...relatively modest $10,000 gratuity from Associated Milk Producers, Inc., for urging Nixon to boost federal milk price supports in 1971. To back up that charge, the Government relied on testimony by Attorney Jake Jacobsen. When seven charges of fraud against him in a Texas savings and loan scandal were dropped, he had agreed to testify against Connally and to plead guilty to one count of offering a gratuity to a public official...
...climbing to a robust $10,000 a seat, Graham has persuaded a former student, First Lady Betty Ford, to act as honorary chairperson of the event. "I hope it will succeed," said Graham. "But if it is a failure, I hope it is a big one, a scandal. I don't believe in little failures...
...furor would make an episode in it self. Undoubtedly, Southwold Solicitor Sir Geoffrey would summon a conclave to cope with the scandal. Richard might well consider putting the screws on the outraged Dowager Lady Southwold to increase his allowance in exchange for suppressing his earlier diaries. Richard's middle-class daughter-in-law Hazel would surely stick up for the servants' right to publish, and James would profit from the occasion by borrowing ten ners from a suddenly flush Hudson. As for Mrs. Bridges, it is obvious that the good woman's recipe book would be come...