Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross is the scandal by which God found entrance into His own world. But look what we have done to it: made it respectable and even stylish ... The scandal is still too much for us, and we twist and turn to escape it, some saying it is God's saving of man, and others that it is man's reforming of man. Both views are right and both are wrong when held separately . . . God has always made the first move and shown the way, but He has sworn that on earth we shall not be saved against...
Last week, in the wake of 1951's scandal-plagued football season, a few belated spasms of conscience were rippling over the nation. Among the more notable convulsions: ¶ The American Council on Education's special committee on athletic policy (ten college presidents) proposed a ban on all postseason bowl games, a rule barring freshmen from varsity teams, elimination of athletic scholarships. ¶The Pacific Coast Conference formally adopted an "honor system" for policing its own backyard against the evils of subsidization. The men put on their honor: the college presidents. ¶ The Eastern College Athletic Conference (representing...
Actress Bennett did her best to hush the scandal. "Knowing Hollywood as I do," she declared with conscientious concern, "knowing how good, wholesome and sincere the majority of motion picture people are, I deeply regret that this incident will add to the erroneous opinion of Hollywood shared by so many." There was no romance, she said. Her ride with Agent Lang was a business conference and they had simply used the car to escape the jangling telephones in his office. The sorry affair was simply the result of Wan-ger's business troubles: "I hope that Walter will...
After the week's testimony, the Attorney General's stirring words had a hollow sound. Wildly tangled as they were, the scandal trails kept leading right back to the door of Theron Lamar Caudle, who was one of McGrath's well-beloved top assistants until a few weeks...
...average of .356 in 1,330 games), who was kicked out of organized baseball after he and seven Chicago White Sox teammates admitted they took bribes to throw the 1919 Series to the Cincinnati Reds; of a heart attack; in hometown Greenville, S.C. His part in the "Black Sox" scandal was complicated by the facts that he 1) was almost illiterate, 2) batted .375 in the series, 3) probably never received the $20,000 promised, 4) later repudiated his confession. In later years, from his liquor store in Greenville, he periodically protested that he was innocent, never convinced baseball...