Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What broke up the uneasy coalition and brought on Norway's first government crisis in a generation was a tragic scandal in the state-run coal mines. In recent years, four disastrous explosions and several lesser accidents have plagued the mines, at a cost of 74 lives. Several weeks ago, an investigating commission charged official negligence. Last week, after four days of angry debate, the two splinter Socialists joined with the opposition in a no-confidence vote. One of the leftists, Finn Gustavsen, explained that the S.P.P. toppled Gerhardsen because "he has no longer any contact with the working...
...Scandal of the coin world is the way these beginners are being threatened by speculators. This month, for instance, before and during the Denver convention of the American Numismatic Association, the price for a roll of 40 Jefferson 50D (which signifies 1950 minting in the Denver plant) nickels jumped from $500 to $750, then settled...
...press continued to play both crime and sin for all they were worth, and it was easy to blame it for exaggerating, if not creating the scandal by buying up "confessions" right and left at fabulous prices. The People, which had lost Christine Keeler's story in the bidding with its rival, News of the World, last week attacked Christine under the banner SHAMELESS SLUT...
...because otherwise the affair would not have "caused so great a shock." The judge in the Ward case himself echoed the widespread view that Ward was an exception, and that "the even tenor of the British family goes on quietly." And the Bishop of Exeter maintained that the "Profumo scandal does not prove that the private morals of public men are worse in this generation than they have been in the past. In the 17th and 18th centuries, they were far worse...
...half-hidden by respectability-and only half-condemned. There is a relative lack of moral indignation in many quarters, including Profumo's own constituency (see following story). The Labor Opposition, though it has muttered about the corrupt aristocracy and the twilight of a class-and exploded the Profumo scandal in the first place-has put far more stress on the practical issue of the British security system...