Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billie Sol Estes case was no laughing matter-to Freeman or anyone else. It was the case of a welfare-state Ponzi. It was a scandal that had already brought about the resignation or dismissal of four Kennedy Administration officials. It had politicians and bureaucrats of all degrees and of both parties shaking in their boots. It had set off investigations galore. It had called into question the whole administration of the mighty U.S. Department of Agriculture...
...mile lines between Pecos, Texas, and Washington, D.C., were getting tauter and tauter as the Billie Sol Estes scandal hotted up. Last week Assistant Secretary of Labor Jerry R. Holleman, 42, a Texas politician and former president of the state A.F.L.-C.I.O., resigned after admitting that he had accepted a $1,000 gift last January from Estes "to help ends meet." Just two days before Holleman confirmed that he had asked Estes and other Texans to pick up the tab for a January dinner Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg gave for Lyndon Johnson, but said he backed off when he learned...
...complained that Democrats, who were quick to begin congressional investigations during his Administration, were showing "no enthusiasm, no drive and no sense of priority" in poking into the Estes case. Texas' Republican Senator John Tower said he had evidence that the Estes case "may make the Teapot Dome scandal look like a Sunday-school picnic." At that point Kennedy came to the defense of Freeman. The President, said Acting Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher, has "the greatest confidence in Secretary Freeman, and that confidence remains unchanged...
...enters a convent to cleanse herself of sensuality, only to end up begging a young officer to rape her. But Audiberti's attention-demanding pace, his mixing of dialect and modern slang with classical French, his erotic, violent language, his loving description of urination-all were too much. "Scandal!" the audience roared...
...artist who married money on his first European escape 23 years before. Denery is not only insensitive to the real difficulties of the people around him, but to the damage that time does to those who are not living well. A busy, opportunistic boor, Denery causes a small-town scandal that wrecks Sophie's engagement; yet throughout his spree, it is difficult for Constance to reconsider the love she felt for him years...