Word: shenanigans
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...easiest refuge in dull times is to hype a story-to make every major or minor shenanigan a Watergate (as in Koreagate, Lancegate and Hollywoodgate). Maybe you can excuse the Washington columnist or the fellow on the beat for tired coinages like that, but you shouldn't excuse the editor who prints them. An editor is always free to change a subject rather than try to inflate it. With Washington less exciting, the cover stories in the newsweeklies again range more widely, to science, medicine, entertainment and sports. Too many magazines and newspapers have also turned-to the displeasure...
Obviously, Frank Wead's story is worth telling-but hardly the way Ford & Co. tell it. They turn his naval career into a bell-bottom farce, his marriage (to Maureen O'Hara) into a pointlessly unpleasant shore-leave shenanigan, and they simplify the commander's character to the point where even Actor Wayne has to play down to his part...
...draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls them, to the World and started a new comic strip called Hans and Fritz. To appease anti-German sentiment in World War I, he changed the name to The Captain and the Kids (Knerr, who rechristened his wards The Shenanigan Kids for the duration, even had the kids go to court to swear that they hailed from The Netherlands...
Egan said, "I don't think that I need tell all comers about the nefarious plot of the Ivy Leaguers to short-change and skin them. They know." He said further that the League "will feel the sales resistance. It should. It is the leader in the plot to shenanigan the public out of its money...
...Something between a hassle and a brouhaha, or maybe a shenanigan...