Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alcott's time, cheap weekly magazines regularly published sensational stories of bloodlust and scandal Authors frequently tossed off these frothy pieces to pay the bills while waiting for a publisher to accept their more highbrow works...
...church in America is in turmoil and disarray--scolded by John Paul for laissez-faire theology, racked by internal squabbles over moral issues (artificial means of birth control, abortion, pre- and extramarital sex, divorce, gay and lesbian rights) up and down the hierarchy and tainted as well by scandal? The spate of news accounts in recent years about priests accused of sexually molesting children is only the most disturbing sign that something must be seriously wrong within the U.S. church. There is another, with potential long-range consequences: the minuscule numbers of men entering the priesthood and women entering religious...
...when he tries to pursue his fascination back in Paris, Miriam is at first reported to have been murdered, and then to have disappeared into the coils of a vast financial and political scandal. This involves the murder of the Baron Jacques de Reinach, an officer of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocaanique, whose Panama Canal project had failed in a miasma of debt and thousands of yellow fever deaths. Fully half of the French Chamber of Deputies had accepted bribes in the form of checks, which they had foolishly signed. They became known to delighted journalists as "chequards...
...President. If it hadn't been for the Gulf War, the public at large would never have heard of him. Is the press promoting him just because he is black or because he's one of the few blacks in the public eye about whom no scandal or wrongdoing has been reported? With the exception of Washington and Eisenhower, generals have made notoriously poor Presidents. EDWARD J. FLICKINGER LaGrange Park, Illinois...
HOSPITALIZED. CHARLES VAN DOREN, 69, charismatic academic felled by the 1950s TV scandal recounted in the 1994 film Quiz Show; in stable condition after collapsing from an undisclosed illness; in Hartford, Connecticut...