Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coach. Last week's repercussions to the scandal centered around a New York appearance by the Army's athletic director and football coach, Earl Blaik (whose son and star quarterback, Bob Blaik, is one of the accused cadets). Coach Blaik called his sportwriter friends together to announce that he was not leaving the Academy in its dark hour...
...nation, which already had its fill of scandal and corruption, was shocked, sorry and puzzled by the news from West Point. Ninety of the Academy's 2,500 cadets, among them the bulk of Army's disciplined and magnificent football team, faced dismissal for a breach of the Cadet Corps' sacrosanct honor system...
...week's end, the West Point affair seemed less like a scandal than a cause for self-searching on the part of both the nation and the Army. Angry voices were raised in Congress. Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, an ex-football player himself, demanded that football at West Point be suspended. Michigan's Congressman Charles E. Potter pictured the 90 as "victims of athletic commercialism...
...headlined scandal broke on Dec. 11, 1861, in the columns of the Cincinnati Commercial. A dispatch explained: "He was . . . while commanding in Kentucky, stark mad . . . He has of course been relieved altogether from command...
...honest liberal stumbles on, carrying his heavy cross, in Irwin Shaw's new novel. This time the poor fellow is Clement Archer, radio director. He is really honest, really liberal: when a scandal-happy sheet accuses members of his troupe of being party-liners, he sets out to find the "facts...