Word: scandalize
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Even before two of its teenage congregants were shot near their car on Sunday, New Life Church in Colorado Springs had been dealing with a legacy of trauma. At the end of 2006, the megachurch had suffered through a sex scandal after its founder Ted Haggard admitted to a relationship with a male escort. Church membership plummeted from 14,000 to 10,000. Now, with a new pastor on board only since August, the church is once again in the national spotlight, this time as part of a shocking two-episode multiple murder. At a press conference today, the church...
...late '40s--was speedy three-time All-American Ralph Beard. The point guard, who helped the U.S. win gold at the 1948 Olympics, was playing in the pros three years later when officials accused him and others of having taken bribes to influence Kentucky games. That betting scandal--the biggest in college-basketball history--got him ejected from the NBA for life. Beard, who admitted taking $700 from gamblers but insisted he never shaved points, said, "It will be with me until they hit me in the face with that first spadeful of dirt, because basketball was my life...
...series of mishaps and blunders since the run two months ago on Northern Rock, Britain's fifth-largest mortgage lender, which is now sustained by emergency funding from the Bank of England. A government department lost two discs containing the financial details of 25 million U.K. residents. A burgeoning scandal over fund raising has forced Labour's General Secretary, Peter Watt, to resign, and threatens to engulf other leading Labour figures. Police are investigating donations to the Labour Party from businessman David Abrahams that Brown himself told a Nov. 27 press conference were "not lawfully declared...
...You’re no stranger to issues of scandal. With the Stephen Gobie incident, after you had come out in 1987, only to have this story broken by the Washington Times two years later, you basically fessed up to everything you did in the situation. We all know how incredibly lurid the Capitol Hill community can be. What did Gobie and D.C. teach you about backstabbing...
...have something called “The Frank Rule,” an issue that became especially relevant during the Mark Foley scandal of 2006, that stipulates that it’s acceptable to out a closeted gay person, if they use their power to hurt gay people. When and how did you come up with this...