Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After its inglorious handling of the Bobby Baker scandal, the U.S. Senate is understandably loath to inquire into yet another case involving its mores and members. Last week, nonetheless, the world's most exclusive club was faced with two impending investigations. The subject of inquiry this time was no expendable retainer but one of the Senate's own: Connecticut Democrat Thomas Joseph Dodd...
...such problem is ecumenism-particularly, Methodism's willingness to commit itself to the Blake proposal for one big Protestant superchurch. While the leaders speak favorably about ecumenism, Methodists do not have "a compelling feeling that we must unite churches to overcome the scandal of division," says the Rev. James Wall, editor of the biweekly Christian Advocate...
...marks even in grade school. Parents scratch for dollars, plunge into debt. State taxes soar. Yet how the bet comes out depends on solitary teachers in secluded classrooms?and the number of bored, hostile and inadequate college teachers adds up to something between a serious concern and an outright scandal...
...Leader Gerald Ford gave reporters a run-of-the-mimeograph release charging that the U.S. was "running short of bombs despite all the billions we have voted for defense" and that this clearly showed "shocking mismanagement" by the Defense Department. Ford also accused the Administration of creating a "national scandal" by allowing a shipping backup to slow materiel deliveries to U.S. troops in Viet...
Romer said that several Argentinian papers subsequently criticized the governor's action, "a national scandal." The governor remained adamant until two months ago when he agreed to release the fossils for five years' study. However, the fossils are still in La Rioja. Romer said he expects to get them eventually...