Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these chilling short stories, the fall from corporate grace, the merger, the personal scandal that might stop the money, are the demons Cheever uses to speculate about the fears of salaried suburbanites...
...Jenkins Scandal...
...farm program has, of course, long been a national scandal, but no one yet has come up with a workable, politically viable solution. Farmers themselves are fond of talking about free enterprise-but they are even fonder of collecting subsidy checks, and they show their proclivities at the polls...
...Korean War, the Eisenhower heart attack, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination-and it usually takes days or even weeks to regain its equilibrium. Last week certainly produced enough news to unsettle Wall Street, but this time the market's reaction was different. Despite the Jenkins scandal, the Kremlin overthrow, the Chinese bomb and Labor's victory in Britain, the market dipped for only a few hours, quickly reversed direction, and by week's end had made up practically all its losses...
Just as brokers were debating the effects of the Jenkins scandal, the news of the Kremlin upheaval came over the public-address system at the New York Stock Exchange's private luncheon club. Brokers dropped their napkins and scurried to telephone their offices, where orders to sell were already piling up. In the next two hours the Dow-Jones industrial average plunged more than 11 points, to 861, and the highspeed ticker ran up to 27 minutes late. Professionals and the big institutions quickly moved in to shop for bargains, helped the market recoup half its loss...