Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's Democratic chieftains made few headlines last May when they picked Arthur Klein as their candidate for Manhattan surrogate, a job rich in patronage and rife with possibilities of scandal (see THE LAW). In the course of ten years on the State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61, had earned a sound judicial reputation, and as frequently happens in New York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss...
Credit the Boss. St. Pete Timesmen cover a geriatric city, but they need their youth to keep up with the paper's tradition of aggressive, investigative reporting. The paper won a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for its scandal-packed report on a Florida turnpike boondoggle; most recently, it took out after Governor Haydon Burns with stories attacking him for nepotism and doing questionable favors for an insurance man. The Times's crusade helped defeat Burns's re-election bid in the May primary...
Undaunted by his demise, Purnell's reverent followers to this day keep his shrunken body embalmed within the 130-acre colony where he reigned as King Ben of the House of David. But immortality has proved equally elusive for the faithful, and death has succeeded, where scandal and scoffery failed, in dooming the perfervid, long-thriving sect. Once the House of David had 1,200 members, controlled a business empire valued at $10,000,000, and won nationwide fame as a communal colony whose male members kept their beards unshaved and locks uncut in emulation of Christ. Today...
...scandal over racial discrimination erupted when a Negro lacrosse player was taken out of the lineup for the Navy game because the Navy refused to let its team play against a Negro. The Corporation issued a no-discrimination statement and declared that in the future a game was to be called off if the opposing team objected to Negro players on Harvard teams...
...explains the upset is a mood of moderate conservatism that dominated the assembly this year; many delegates were openly worried about the implications and value of the kind of commitment to causes for which Blake is famed. Thompson shares Blake's ecumenical view that church division is a scandal, and his concern for civil rights. But, adds one minister who knows both men: "I doubt if Thompson will get himself arrested on any civil rights demonstrations, even though he'll be just as deeply involved in the issues as Blake." Fellow churchmen also consider Thompson a more tactful...