Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transformed a Capri grotto into a scented Sodom, where attendants wore the habit of Franciscan friars and skyrockets were fired to celebrate orgasms. Photographs were taken and circulated. Eventually, reports of the goings on were published in the press. Kaiser Wilhelm rushed to the support of Fritz. But the scandal was too much, and Fritz committed suicide...
...average student wouldn't realize it is wrong to sell tickets at these prices," Watson said. Varsity and freshmen football coaches contacted their players yesterday to warn them against the sales, he said. A ticket-sale scandal in the 1930's cost several football players their eligibility at Harvard, he added...
...surged ahead after Terry suffered a heart attack. A civic activist and Du Pont employee, Peterson is a rather dull, determined organizer. Arizona's one-eyed Republican Governor Jack Williams, 59, ran a repeat of his 1966 defeat of ex-Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship following a divorce earlier this year, managed to trounce Democrat Bronson LaFollette, 32, heir to a grand old Badger State name, but a man of little political experience...
...toward the beginning of October, after one East German agent had been arrested, six others fled West Germany. But it did not tie them to the admiral. By week's end the Ludke case remained open-and with it lingered the specter of a major and painful espionage scandal...
Money in the Shoes? No Olympics would be complete without a scandal, and this time the rhubarb involved alleged under-the-table payments to U.S. and foreign athletes by rival German track-shoe manufacturers. Rumor piled on rumor: stories told of payoffs ranging as high as $6,500; officials were said to have canceled checks to prove that bribes were paid; several U.S. medal-winners were reported guilty. But rumors the stories remained after the U.S. Olympic Committee investigated and announced that it could find "nothing to substantiate" them...