Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breathless, France awaited the next act of the first major scandal to be tried in De Gaulle's Fifth Republic...
...coach (48 losses in 228 games). Between 1944 and 1950, Blaik's Army juggernauts went undefeated for 32 and 28 games at a clip. When, in 1951, Blaik's quarterback son Bob and virtually the entire varsity squad were dismissed from the Point in the mishandled "cribbing scandal," Blaik resolutely stayed on, brought Army back to football greatness, last year had another unbeaten season. Last week, at 61, he resigned, denied he was leaving because of friction with Army brass over the Academy's no-Bowl policy ("sheer malarky"), or for health reasons ("bunk"), said only...
...feud over the Class Marshal election continues to be as ugly an argument as any national election scandal--and with less reason. The Young Republican Club remains the hotbed of personal spite and political pettiness that has characterized it for lo, these many years. And the Student Council would appear to be warming up to a nasty little fight for officers--again, it would seem, more a clash of personalities than of issues...
...seen again; but the Minister of the Interior received a letter in which Joanovici "regretfully announced" that "I am not able to earn enough money to reimburse the state . . . therefore I am compelled to leave France." Days after his departure, the police unearthed a vast financial scandal: groups of businessmen had looted a billion francs from the treasury by obtaining tax rebates on nonexistent metals and other goods. Said the chief accused, one Pierre Bercque: "I was just a cog in the machine. The real boss of our outfit was Joanovici...
...York, who have for years passed on the authenticity of old violins, almost unanimously supported Werro. Seventy-year-old Albert Phillips-Hill of London's sacrosanct W.E. Hill & Sons, and himself known in the trade as "The Pope," called the work of Iviglia's bureau a "scandal...