Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before he was elected speaker of the House in 1977, O'Neill was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War in the '60s--then a risky political stance--and he helped lead the effort to impeach then-President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal...
...come forward with that information. It's a dirty secret. There are powerful feelings of shame, self-blame, humiliation." Similarly, Stuart Hart, a professor of psychology at Indiana University, concluded after 60 hours of interviews with Lyle that the older brother had been "programmed" to keep the scandal quiet...
...There are major players and a lot of big dollars involved -- big dollars," says a law-enforcement source. Another source familiar with the case goes even further. "This is the biggest thing since Ill Wind," he says. Operation Ill Wind was the code name for the vast Pentagon procurement scandal that broke five years ago. It involved eight major corporations and produced 63 convictions...
...York judge last week dismissed all criminal charges against Clark Clifford, the Washington eminence grise charged with fraud and bribery in connection with the B.C.C.I. scandal. The judge pointedly cited the 86-year- old's ill health, not "the interests of justice," as the reason for his decision. Clifford, however, claimed to have been vindicated...
...Seminary Scandal...