Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were as many incidental answers as there had been races for House and Senate seats. One reason, for example, for Republican victories in Colorado was a scandal surrounding the Democratic warden of the state penitentiary. Local issues elected many Congressmen. There were millions of scratched ballots, millions of voters who crossed party lines to register an independent opinion. But certain important generalizations could be made, especially from the Senate races...
...bill of divorcement from the Democratic machine, gave himself a quick whitewash and bounded onstage gleaming like the driven snow and shouting that he was an Independent. To Tammany's horror, the acting mayor began getting applause, particularly after he took advantage of the Brooklyn gambling scandal (TIME, Oct. 9) to appoint big, reassuring Tom Murphy, the Alger Hiss prosecutor, as police commissioner...
...invariably wants to "throw the book" at someone ("He wouldn't know any other use for a book," says Hall). He is bothered by his budget ("Our sinking fund is going down for the third time"), and by the town gossips who are trying to stir up a scandal about a young English professor and a coed...
...murder involves the death of a Boston taxi-dancer, killed by her husband when she is caught cavorting with one of the Harvard medics. The legal Doctors take upon themselves to clear up their own scandal but they are faced with a blank wall until Boston Police--ably led by Montalban step in to pull them...
...Slivers of this wood are still preserved and venerated in shrines throughout Christendom. In the Middle Ages, the hawking of spurious slivers became a scandal, and it was largely to reassure the faithful that a 19th Century Frenchman, Rohault de Fleury, devoted years to measuring the certified pieces still in existence. Their volume, according to De Fleury, was only 4,000 cubic centimeters, or about 2% of the probable volume of the cross...