Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazil transported two armies. One sailed to Italy and fought, returned to a heroes' acclaim. Another, an 18,000-strong labor army, went north to the Amazon to gather rubber for a needy Ally-and never came back. By last week, its disappearance was a major national scandal...
...floor of Brazil's Constituent Assembly, deputies last week demanded that the Government make a full report on the scandal of the lost army. In the dry Northeast, families still clamored for their men. On the jungle floor, far below the noise of the birds and the monkeys, was everlasting silence...
During 38 years in Mississippi politics Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo has waded through sloughs of scandal which would have sucked down a dozen ordinary politicians. In 1910, as a drink-cadging state legislator, he heard the State Senate pronounce him "unfit to sit with upright men." He was jailed in 1923 for refusing to testify in a seduction suit against his political sidekick, Governor Lee M. Russell. He divorced his wife; she accused him of cruelty and a succession of infidelities, publicly begged Mississippi's women to vote against...
...Jackson from his unprecedented action, but had failed. The President was hopping mad. For in the long run, even though he had appointed neither Jackson nor Black, Harry Truman's administration, as the inheritor of the New Deal, would get most of the blame for the unseemly judicial scandal...
Sins of the Father. The scandal in 1864 did not involve the children. But many years later Oscar Wilde, too, had his day in court.* People then inevitably recalled Sir William's troubles, though by that time he had long been in his grave. Nowadays Sir William is generally remembered, when he is, because he happened to be Oscar's father, or because he was, as an outraged Victorian put it, a "pithecoid person of extraordinary sensuality." Victorian Doctor attempts to give him his due as a medical man and to show the sort of person he actually...