Word: scandals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans to begin the Eightieth Congress with a prayer and end it with a probe. Scarcely a day of the session passed that did not witness exploratory jabs into some phase of the past or present activities of the Democratic administration. The pertinent facts of the May-Garsson scandal were public knowledge by the time that the GOP took up the reins of Congress; but Republicans can hog most of the credit for the smear "investigation" of David Lilienthal and the recent brief and abortive attempt to discredit the security measures of the Atomic Energy Commission. The grand finale...
...have an advantage). In addition, it gives later published facts about subjects that are in the center of the news, thus being able to bring off a good, all-round article about an event which has not yet been cleared up in the daily papers (e.g., the Pearl Harbor scandal...
...fellow townsmen in Princeton knew or cared, he was generally acknowledged to be the world's authority on Wordsworth. When, in the course of his researches into Wordsworth's life, he discovered that the poet had fathered an illegitimate child, he was as distressed as if the scandal had happened in his own family. It was a long time before he could bring himself to publish what he had found...
Mexico City's riproaring El Universal Gráfico ripped into a juicy medical scandal. Physicians assigned to make premarital blood tests were drawing out more than enough for the tests and were selling the extra amount (sometimes as much as a pint) at high prices. Roared the Gráfico: "These vampires are sucking the blood of Mexican men, robbing them of their strength just when they need it most...
...lover. Then his vengeful widow (played with notable intensity by Marta Mitrovich) and a crooked art dealer (well played by Steven Geray) try to blackmail her. Her efforts to keep the truth from her husband bring on other complications and the whole business becomes a court-and-headline scandal. Battling their way through the excess plot like machete-swinging explorers of the Mato Grosso, Mr. Scott and Miss Sheridan express the emotions that might be expected of them; acidulous Eve Arden and earnest Divorce Lawyer Lew Ayres finally persuade them to give their marriage another...