Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, but Fanfani's government had since fallen, and the President would be visiting an Italy in political turmoil. In West Germany he would be calling on a lame-duck Chancellor; in Britain his host would be the unhappy head of a scandal-rocked Tory government. There were problems at home that needed the President's attention. But by last week's end, after completion of more than half the trip, it was clear that while it may not have been necessary it certainly was nice...
...famous Catholic author, Morin does not wish to create a scandal by not going to church, at least on Christmas Eve. But when he goes, he dares not take Communion. Why? Ostensibly, because of a sinful love affair. But the affair is long over, and he still cannot bring himself to take Communion. Tortuously, he argues that if he no longer had any faith at all, he could take Communion without a qualm. The fact that he cannot is his last lingering hope: perhaps his loss of faith is visited on him as a judgment. "As long as I keep...
...House of Commons this week, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would have to confront criticism from the Laborites, plus some barely suppressed dissent in his own party, of the way in which he handled, or mishandled, the Profumo scandal. In the long run, the Tories faced an even more elusive and insidious threat than parliamentary attacks-the facts in police dossiers and in the private lives of people who personify Conservative rule...
...call girl with a Soviet agent, why was nothing done to break up a liaison that might expose him to Russian blackmail? Was Macmillan told? If so, had the government encouraged Profumo to lie about his dalliance with Christine Kee ler solely in order to avert a damaging scandal...
...Governor-appointed Ole Miss board of trustees was powerless to prevent the usurpation of its authority and functions by Ross Barnett, but in Alabama the constitution, as the result of a turn-of-the-century scandal over political meddling in the university, makes the trustees independent by providing that vacancies on the board are to be filled by vote of the board itself. Ole Miss is a way of making Mississippi kids into Mississippi adults; Alabama is more rigorously concerned with the pursuit of knowledge...