Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caught in the riptide of the Der Spiegel scandal, Adenauer did not go down without a fight. When his own coalition was endangered, Adenauer proposed that the potent opposition Social Democrats (S.P.D.) join with him" in a "grand coalition." Unconcerned by the fact that he had described the S.P.D. leaders in the past as godless, irresponsible and crypto-Communist, Adenauer told the Social Democrats that their "sense of responsibility" required that they help maintain a stable German government at this time of crisis. Socialist Chief Erich Ollenhauer listened but made no promises...
...government desperately needed gold to pay for war purchases, but few patriots were willing to turn in their hoards, even on the attractive official terms for payment. Civil defense measures were a joke, slit trenches being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless villagers on the northern frontier. Perhaps to stiffen his resolve, a newspaper editor sent Prime...
...whole sequence was repeated seven years later when Debussy left Rosalie to marry wealthy Emma Bardac, mother of one of his pupils. Rosalie fired two bullets into herself, recovered and disappeared from Debussy's life. So did most of Debussy's friends. To Debussy, the scandal seemed in some mystic way to be payment for "some forgotten debt to life." In the years after 1904, Debussy was more comfortable financially, but both the quality and quantity of his music faded...
Valentino's two friends, Scandal the misanthrope and Tattle the fop, are presented by Messrs. Rawson and Schmidt. Mr. Rawson has been dressed up to look like the Merry Monarch, but he sounds like Chris Rawson, which is somehow wrong. Mr. Schmidt postures very fastidiously...
Died. Harry F. Reutlinger, 66, longtime newsman on Hearst's Chicago American, who started as a copy boy in 1914 and, on the strength of such scoops as the Black Sox baseball scandal and the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note, climbed to city editor (1936-51) and managing editor (1951-60); of cancer; in Chicago. In 1938, guessing that a daredevilish pilot named Douglas Corrigan might not fly to Los Angeles from New York as he had told civil aeronautics officials, Reutlinger put in transatlantic phone calls to major Irish airports. Reaching Corrigan just after the flyer landed his single...