Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scandal v. Chitchat...
...first major scandal to besmirch a big-time war producer hit the headlines just over a year ago (TIME, Jan. 4, 1943). In Fort Wayne, Ind., and Pawtucket, R.I., the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co.* was indicted for deliberately delivering to Russia and to the U.S. Army Signal Corps equipment dangerously below standard. Last June the Fort Wayne case wound up with the maximum fine ($10,000 and costs) for Anaconda Wire, lesser fines for five officials and suspended jail sentences for three of them...
...feet tall, with a torchlight personality, headlight eyes, "neither Negro nor half-breed," possessing "a fierce magnificence of Indian-colored flesh, high cheekbones that had been heavily rouged and then powdered over, big, bold, red dened mouth." She wore a transparent dress around the house, knew all the scandal there was to know. She had known Lily's mother in jail. (More or less by chance, Lily's mother - good, but hot-tempered - had thrown a knife at a man, severed his jugular vein, been sentenced to 20 years in prison.) Oleander ordered Lily around, kept house...
...present touring this country on a leave of absence, one of her ambitious is to witness a collegiate football "match." Miss Askenazy was attache to the Polish embassy in Moscow from 1941 to 1943. She was recalled following the Polish army officer scandal in which the Polish government-in-exile accused the Russians of murdering 10,000 captured Polish officers...
...bill which virtually repeal the Contracts Renegotiation Act. Said he: "They open the way to truly extortionate profits. I predict if they are enacted into law they will come back to plague not only the Congress but the war goods manufacturers. They hold the seed of a national scandal...