Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backgrounds of students coming into the institution, and the result has been a singularly unsuited group of men since the war at the institution to participate in athletics. One of them ... is now serving a term of one to 20 years for armed robbery." But, in spite of the scandal, in the two months before sentence was actually passed, McCue was out there on the Western Illinois gridiron, complete with scholarship and the personal approval of President...
...much money. Yet the journalists who flocked to interview him found him indescribably shabby. Where was the money going? It was a long time before they discovered that the "Prince of Poets" was supporting three retired prostitutes named Philomene, Eugenie and Caroline, and living with each in turn. No scandal could shake the dignity of the great man, who now referred to himself in the third person, saying: "He has little left to him except his poverty, but he insists that this at least shall be respected." It was. When he stumbled home drunk, a proud gendarme escorted him, explaining...
UNION MERGER between scandal-ridden Teamsters and racketeer-infested International Longshoremen's Association is in talking stage. I.L.A. President William Bradley is passing word to bosses of his locals that alliance is set for "about six months" after Teamsters are expelled from A.F.L.-C.I.O. for corruption...
...still there, all three Pittsburgh newspapers had endorsed his reelection, the machine was rolling, and Dave Lawrence was on the way to a fourth term. There were few who would say him nay, despite such displays of untidy municipal housekeeping as potholes in the streets and frequent scandal in the police department. For King David, on behalf of bosses everywhere, had tested a new proverb and proved its wisdom: in time of prosperity one towering skyscraper is the equivalent of 7,000 city jobs...
BIGGEST INSURANCE SCANDAL in Texas history, which has already caused resignation of state insurance commissioner, flock of investigations by grand juries and legislative committees, also resulted in ten-year jail sentence for Texas Promoter Ben-Jack Cage, who started it all with collapse of his multimillion-dollar ICT Insurance Co. Jury convicted Cage for using $100,000 in ICT funds to buy stock that he later credited to his own management company...