Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...started out as such a faint hope for New York Senator Charles Schumer that he hardly dared voice it. But as more and more Republicans retire or become engulfed by scandal, it has become irresistibly imaginable: the idea that Democrats might gain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate after the 2008 elections. "It's a very remote chance and every star would have to align correctly," Schumer, who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told TIME. "But it's way too early to make predictions...
...Holmes' debut went almost unnoticed, and the struggling doctor devoted nearly all of his spare time to writing long historical novels in the vein of Sir Walter Scott - novels that he was convinced would make his reputation. It wasn't to be. In 1888, Holmes reappeared in A Scandal in Bohemia, a short story in Strand Magazine. An immediate hit, its hero took the foggy, crime-ridden London of gas street lights and Jack the Ripper by storm - and Conan Doyle's life would never be the same...
...happy marriage ("Sit back, relax and wait for the sweet embrace of death"). I also appreciated Eddie's flailing argument for dumping his bride for another woman. "The heart wants what it wants," he says, quoting Woody Allen's remark to Walter Isaacson of TIME during the 1992 scandal involving the filmmaker's affair with his stepdaughter Soon...
...women who took to writing or speaking—tackles the sensitive issue of rape while also discussing social attitudes towards female sexual behavior; the juxtaposition of the two creates what Ulrich calls a woman’s attempt to toe the line between invisibility and scandal. “Slaves in the Attic” discusses the coupling of the abolitionist movement with the suffrage movement. Ulrich’s originality is most evident in her portrait of “the four Harriets,” figures who reveal society’s varying levels of awareness...
...Orleans . "The problem [in 2003] was, he never defended himself. Now, obviously, he's going to change that." Jindal has responded with ads of his own, attacking his opponents as part of the "corrupt crowd" - even though none of the other major candidates has been tainted by scandal - and touting his conservative bona fides. He's released a slew of position papers on topics ranging from health care to crime, and promised to reform Louisiana's ethically challenged political system - a perennial campaign theme that has had limited success among past reform candidates...