Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Armed Services Committee about the Administration's directive requiring future National Guard recruits to undergo six months of full-time military training-a plan that the politically influential Guard opposes as a hindrance to enlistments. "You know," he volunteered, "the thing was really sort of a scandal during the Korean war. It was a draft-dodging business. A boy of 17 to 18½ could enlist in the National Guard and not be drafted and sent to Korea and fight...
Three Brave Men (20th Century-Fox) is based on the famous Chasanow case (TIME, May 10, 1954 et seq.), which in one fell scandal discredited the Navy's existing security program. But are bumbling bureaucrats the villains of the piece? Not at all. "This," the studio declares with unblinking self-gratulation, "is the story the Navy wanted told ... of the lengths to which [governmental] agencies will go to safeguard the sacred rights of individuals ... of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy who has the moral courage to discover and publicly admit his mistake...
...into the keyhole press, which in recent years has made a multimillion-dollar business out of character assassination. On the face of it, the picture is just Hollywood's way of swatting one of its more irritating fleas: most of the people who have been smeared by the scandal magazines are movie stars. But in a deeper sense the moviemakers have served the public too. For in the pursuit of the principal villain they also take a swipe or two at his accomplices-at the readership which settles in cloudlike millions on the garbage which the scandal sheets provide...
Neither does the Guard seem to have been, except in some regrettable cases, "sort of a scandal during the Korean War." At the beginning of the conflict, both Air and Army National Guard leaders urged "immediate mobilization." They were told that the war was only a "police action" and it could be handled by the regular services. As it was, though, eighty-four percent of the Air Guard and thirtyseven percent of the Army Guard were mobilized. Two of the eight mobilized divisions saw action in Korea, and well over fifty percent of combat missions were flown by reservists...
Breath of Scandal. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Virginia K. Rand won a divorce after she testified that her husband objected to the way she was making garlic toast at a party, "made a scene in the presence of our guests and humiliated me by making the garlic toast himself...