Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next to waging the cold war and preventing a hot one, the most gruesome task confronting the U.S. Government is coping with the farm-glut scandal. Swollen by the costs of buying and storing farm surpluses-largely created by obsolete federal price supports-Agriculture Department spending will mount this fiscal year to $6.9 billion, more than twice the combined outlays of the State, Justice, Interior, Commerce and Labor Departments...
...Franco could afford it politically," said an American businessman last summer, "he could throw a scandal that would make vicuña coats look tawdry." Last week Franco decided he had to afford it. A mass police roundup hit Spain, and this time the victims were not radical opponents, but some of the nation's biggest and richest names-bankers, industrialists, Cabinet ministers, even members of Franco's own family. Though details were carefully concealed from the public, the roundup was the climax of the most sensational financial scandal in the history of the regime. The crime common...
...game skillfully. Perhaps equally important, they must be taught to play the rules. Their potential employer wants to know that his hirelings will be responsible, hardworking and clever, but he also wants assurance that they will violate middle class mores with enough guile so as not to cause a scandal...
...reception to TIME'S reports of Latin America-whether ardent endorsement or furious disagreement-is always emphatic. TIME is apt to be denounced for printing a scandal of the reader's own country and praised by the same reader for exposing the unlovely truth in a neighboring land. TIME is eagerly sought as a window on the world, and denounced as an unwanted interventionist in foreign affairs. A story of impressive accomplishment in Brazil recently inspired President Juscelino Kubitschek to pull out his Portuguese-English dictionary and translate it personally for the local press. Another story...
...works as High Voltage, a ballet that features a flashing pylon on the stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael represented by a contralto dressed in a boxer's dressing gown...