Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to hear some strange rumors about its schools. For some reason that no one in Sandusky quite understood, State Superintendent Lee M. Thurston began an investigation of Smith's enrollment records. Last week Thurston announced the results. He had just uncovered, said he, "the most serious school scandal ever to confront...
According to Thurston's investigators, the scandal had really begun back in 1945. In that year Smith's enrollment figures suddenly began to soar, entitling Sandusky to thousands of extra dollars in state aid. Though no one suspected it at the time, Sandusky's school lists were just about as phony as Chichikov's serfs in Dead Souls. By 1950, said the investigators, Superintendent Smith was claiming state aid for 1,243 pupils, when his actual total enrollment was only 797. Last year he claimed 1,253 pupils, actually had only 785. Some of the names...
Shape of Venus. So began l'affaire de Réthy, the royal scandal that helped Leopold lose his throne. Last week, strong national feelings about the princess were jeopardizing the prestige of Leopold's son, 22-year-old King Baudouin...
...Wednesday Pilot article, speaking of Rome's original rejection of Feeney's views, explained, "The highest authority in the Church had spoken and it confidently hoped that its word would be heeded. It patiently waited that the tempest and strife and vilification would gradually subside, scandal be removed and peace and harmony return to the harrassed members within the fold of Christ." Feeney's persistence in his heretical belief led to a call to Rome, and, following his refusal, excommunication...
Under a correspondent's prodding, General Reeder acknowledged that U.N. troops are now being rationed on artillery ammunition. Censorship still hides the rest of the story, but when it can be told it will emerge as a major scandal in home-front procurement...