Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tension between the Chicago school board and its skilled but stubborn Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis had been building for months. Last week it was Willis who snapped, turning in his resignation after ten years of efficient, scandal-free school-building service. For Willis, 61, it was no easy decision: the job pays $48,500 a year...
...about this; and you would be right, too, except that the present set of paristal rules is now producing a succession of serious violations, and a system of attitudes about sexual behavior which are not only distressing in themselves but promise to move us closer and closer to outright scandal. So we reach a point where we must discuss parietal rules in moral terms...
...bizarre sexual exploits, left no grounds for belief that John Pro-fumo's affair with Christine Keeler had resulted in any leakage of Allied secrets, and quashed partisan speculation that Harold Macmillan's Cabinet had sought to protect the former War Secretary in order to avoid another scandal...
...disclosed a character defect which pointed to his being a security risk," adding that Christine might well have tried to "blackmail him or bring pressure on him to disclose secret information." Indeed, suggests Denning, Ivanov may have been under express orders from the Soviet government to blow up a scandal involving Profumo, in the hope that it would weaken U.S. trust in the government-and "he succeeded only too well...
...registered with the House superintendent; the superintendent or other House personnel should see to it that such parties are reasonably controlled and not allowed to get out of hand. Such enforcement would reduce the disturbing effect parties have on other students, and also reduce drastically the possibility of public scandal. The danger of scandal would remain, but all students should not be punished for the indiscretion of a few. And those who do violate these social rules should be punished...