Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among the dismissed: News Panel Moderator Jacques Legris, Foreign Affairs Analyst Emmanuel de La Taille and Star Sportscaster Roger Couderc. The purge, a repudiation of the government s pledge of amnesty during the strike and a violation of the French constitution, was described by Le Nouvel Observateur as "the scandal of scandals of 1968. Of all the humiliations inflicted by the regime, this one seems the worst...
Foreclosed Mortgage. The public scandal was the immediate reason for Ruopp's dismissal, but the trustees were also worried, justifiably, about Franconia's precarious financial situation. Although an imaginative educator, Ruopp was unimpressive as a fund raiser. The school was running $100,000 per year in the red on an operating budget of $1,000,000. Insurance companies canceled their policies on the college's buildings, and the banks holding its mortgage threatened to foreclose...
...death by torture (500 lashes of the cat-o'-ninetails amounted to just that) could be handed out by a kangaroo court of Marine officers as casually as a parking fine would be imposed today. Scarred, starved and brutalized, the convict sub-world could credibly circulate the malicious scandal that the cattle belonging to the officers' ruling caste had died of pox contracted through bestial sexual commerce with their owners...
Tatlin's constructivist ideas were inspired by a visit to Paris, where he saw Pablo Picasso's cubist collages. He returned to startle Moscow in 1915 with an exhibit of totally abstract collages made of tin, piping and paper. "Scandal!" cried the critics. Tatlin responded by coining the word constructivism, indicating that his art was essentially creative rather than destructive. Malevich, Gabo and others thereupon declared themselves constructivists...
Criticism last week focused on a parks and recreation commission scandal. Three weeks ago, Yorty was stung by the conviction of two of his harbor commissioners for bribery, while two others await trial. And the criticism goes beyond his commissioners to the mayor himself. Negroes and white liberals claim that Yorty failed to move adequately to solve ghetto problems after the 1965 Watts riots...