Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year, the exodus had become something of a national scandal. Said Premier Eshkol: "We have been able to build and maintain the State of Israel by virtue of the quality of its citizens. But this qualitative superiority is today in danger. The pioneer of our day, the builder of the land, devoted, knowledgeable, diligent?where is he to come from...
...suspicions thus raised about Ed Long deepened the gloom of a Senate already embarrassed by the case of Connecticut's Tom Dodd, by the vulgar performance of the other Long, Russell, who stalled legislative proceedings for five weeks over the tax-endowed campaign-fund act, and by the scandal of Adam Clayton Powell on the other side of the Hill...
...present number of hours, and that was just too radical for the Masters. After all, the only change before December of the rules drawn up in 1953-54 was extending Saturday hours from 11 p.m. to midnight. And that was in 1957. In 1963, there was a national scandal over a request to Dean Monro for more Friday parietals. The Deans and the Masters certainly haven't forgotten that...
...help to convince people that what you are saying is important. A sample approach: pick out a prosecution witness and attack him. For instance, the venerable medical examiner who gave damaging testimony as to how the murder victim died. Say that the way he runs his office is "a scandal." There may be phrases of his that you can turn to your own use, like: "I have dealt with the greatest defense lawyers in the world, but I have never met anyone in the legal profession like...
...promise of scandal, much of funk turned out to be merely cheerfully bizarre. Sue Bitney's Family Portrait, a rainbow-hued collection of triangular, circular and arched abstract forms made of painted wood, stuffed canvas and hairy cloth, looked like a creative child's garden of playthings. Kenneth Price's egg-shaped ceramic, glossily glazed in sea blue, sunny yellow and golfing green, beguiled the eye with its nonobjective purity...