Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the aura of intrigue was deepened and tinged with scandal when the Army's Saigon command announced that eight Green Berets, including the Special Forces commander for all of Viet Nam, had been detained while the Army investigated charges of premeditated murder against them in the shooting of a South Vietnamese. The commander is Colonel Robert B. Rheault, 43, a much-decorated West Pointer. Also arrested were two majors, three captains, a chief warrant officer and a ser geant first class...
...recollection of these words evoked bitter irony last week. Kennedy's career was threatened not by a violent enemy or a political foe but by a scandal that revealed a shocking lapse of judgment and control...
...suggestion that she might be involved in scandal would have appalled Mary Jo Kopechne. Then it might have amused her, for she was often kidded for not being a swinger. Girlish and gung-ho, she led a life that revolved around the Catholic Church, politics and the Kennedy family. Mary Jo, as everyone who knew her agreed last week, was the girl next door, or perhaps the tomboy, who played catcher on the office softball team. When she took her first Capitol Hill job in 1963, working for Florida's Senator George Smathers, there was a standing joke that only...
...Republican denunciations of a 1960 police scandal: "Just say Daley laughed...
...separate apartments with a connecting interior staircase, until Antonioni won an annulment and the two were married. In less sophisticated circles, extramarital relationships are also common and accepted. "You want to know which of your friends are living together," says a Milan doctor, "not for gossip or to spread scandal, but to know how to address invitations to your parties...