Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atrocity has been spreading, and stirring consciences in London. After all, Kenya is a crown colony for which the British are responsible, not an independent state like the Union of South Africa, whose racial practices are beyond Britain's authority. British Labor M.P.s smelled a first-rate colonial scandal. They dug up and hurled at the Macmillan government the fact that Kenya's official "Cowan Plan," named after a colonial prison administrator, decreed that recalcitrant prisoners "be manhandled to the site and forced to carry out the task...
...organizer, once described as "the movie idea of a genial Texas oilman"; of a heart attack; in Newark. Holderman was an early C.I.O. organizer, later headed the New Jersey C.I.O., was appointed state commissioner of labor and industry in 1954 by Governor Robert B. Meyner, cleaned house at the scandal-ridden labor department...
...Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Sinclair went to jail for six months for contempt of court and the Senate. Doheny was acquitted of charges to defraud the Government and sold control of his Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. holdings to Standard of Indiana. The ironic aftermath: instead of producing 130 million bbl. as the U.S. had predicted, Teapot Dome depleted itself after...
...swami who found the secret of existence in a boyhood flash of illumination and pursued a course of sainthood to his death. And by the simple process of digging up the diaries of three French writers, he makes old gossip seem as juicily Gallic as a Paris headline scandal. Points of View is, in fact, as bland a job of literary borrowing and cool transformation as has been seen in some time...
...turns of logic in his novel would tax Laocoön on a good wrestling day. There is a baffling subplot about a priggish schoolteacher and his nymphomaniac wife, who farms out her favors on a faded billiard table. Though the teacher is unnerved by a hint of scandal, he spends most of his time goading his wife into the arms of her lovers. One is Ol' Gene, and by the time the billiard-table girl finishes with him, Massie's in the cold, cold ground...