Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrity, unfolds at a party where the host, a deputy mayor of New York City, lies bleeding from a bullet wound in the earlobe. He is too dazed to talk. His wife and servants are missing. Rather than call for help, the assembled friends launch a cover-up, avoiding scandal ostensibly for their host but also for themselves. Instead of hewing to the consistent if mad logic of successful farce, the conspirators lurch haphazardly from rationale to rationale...
...fair share of disaster and dissapointment. The murders of Robert Kennedy '48 and Martin Luther King Jr shocked Americans by showing the nation's violent side. Faith in government was shattered by the successive blows of Vietnam, Watergate, the sour economy of the 1970s and the Iran-Contra scandal...
...committing genocide against ourselves by depriving America of all the wages unborn babies would be earning in the 21st century. He also made wild claims about offensive missiles remaining in Cuba. He finally became a laughingstock when he suggested that Bush's people had engineered the Jimmy Swaggart sex scandal to damage his campaign...
Bush, who held the post of Republican national chair during the height of the Watergate scandal, said Atwater's function would be "winning elections...
...scandal is the third in the past five years to tarnish Hungary's most popular spectator sport, but political pressure largely buried previous investigations. Three years ago, several of the country's best players received timely pardons so they could represent Hungary in the 1986 World Cup. The latest scandal has triggered a groundswell of anger aimed not only at the corruption that tinges Hungary's most popular sport but also at a system of behind-the-back favors that touches virtually every aspect of life. But the new government of Communist Party leader Karoly Grosz is headlining this latest...