Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unseemly aroma of a liquor scandal, which Republicans survived in 1952, still hung over the state...
...spite of its youthful struggles, it was able to collect a strong faculty almost from the start. It was true that the can tankerous Gustavus Hinrichs of Copenhagen, dismissed as head of the School of Science because of his "hasty, angry conduct," caused a major scandal by bombarding the legislature with pamphlets attacking the university (Corruption in the University of Darkest America, Rotten to the Core, Stop That Leak!). But S.U.I. survived. Historian Benjamin Shambaugh helped make the entire state history-conscious; Paleontologist Samuel Calvin became the ranking U.S. authority on the Pleistocene age of North America; bearded Thomas...
Said Mitchell: "All right. Let's look at the Dixon-Yates scandal." He was referring to the plan by which the Atomic Energy Commission will purchase electric power from two Southern utility companies to reimburse the Tennessee Valley Authority for increased amounts of TVA power to be used by the AEC. In approving the contract, Ike overruled the AEC majority (TIME, June 28). Mitchell's charge: "It so happens that a director of one of the two companies favored in the syndicate is one of the President's closest friends-with a cottage next to President Eisenhower...
...blew off with a sex scandal. On a hilarious Saturday night following the traditional varsity-alumni football game, a student brought a girl into East Lawn dormitory. During the night a dozen students and alumni were in and out of the room; when the girl finally got home Monday, her socially prominent parents called the university in outrage...
...campaign. Hall loudly proclaimed his admiration for President Eisenhower, but he hammered hard at the deal which forced Eisenhower's Republican National Chairman Wesley Roberts, a protege of Senator Carlson, to resign under fire (TIME, March 30, 1953 et seq.) in a scandal involving the sale of a tuberculosis hospital...