Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for Barak's downfall may be a recent series, of embarrassments of Czechoslovak espionage activities overseas, for which Barak-as secret police boss-was responsible. These include the defection of Prague's military attache in Washington, a spy scandal in West Germany, and the arrests last year of four Czech agents in Switzerland and Israel...
...there is a danger in the President's making an important issue of a problem on which he is clearly unable to act immediately, it is that suggestions of scandal allow too many people to play the heroic investigator. Nothing delights congressmen seeking reelection more than the prospect of uncovering corruption in the executive branch. The stockpile question is a tricky one, and efforts to fix the blame for it on specific administrators are unlikely to answer it effectively...
...press. Vol. I, No. 1 of the Observer was a single section of 32 pages-half of it ads. Of six Page One stories, four datelessly treated trends or events long since dissected by other newspapers, e.g., a lengthy article on police corruption that reprised a Chicago police department scandal (1960) and a similar dustup in Denver...
...pleasure, and he gets the account. Furious, Doris vows to steal an account from Rock-the Vip account. What she doesn't know: there is no such product as Vip. Rock made it up to please a chorus girl (Edie Adams), who swore she'd make a scandal if she couldn't make TV commercials. Released by accident, the commercials create a tremendous demand for a product that does not exist...
...much. A small (5 ft. 8 in.), grey-haired man with a winsome smile and a squeaky voice, Daniel hardly fits the image of the flamboyant Texas politician-but Texans seem to like him, and he is a formidable vote-getter. This year he can point to a scandal-free administration and a record of modest achievement in highway construction, industrial development and teachers' pay raises...