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scandal Law a libellous action or statement Scandal See also Controversy. Scapegoat (See DUPERY.) Abélard, Peter (1079–c. 1144) French theologian takes Héloïse, abbess, as lover; marries her in secret. [Fr. Hist.: EB, I: 18] Chicago White Sox baseball players accused of taking bribes to lose the 1919 World Series. [Sports: EB, II: 66] car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy plunges off bridge; woman companion dies (1969). [Am. Hist.: Facts (1969), 452] (1894–1972) King of Britain whose decision to marry a divorcee forced him to abdicate throne (1936). [Br. Hist.: NCE, 835–836] game show discovered to be fixed (1958). [TV: Terrace, II, 295–296] fraud is exposed in British South Sea Company (1720). [Br. Hist.: EB, IX: 383]
government oil reserves fraudulently leased to private concerns (1922). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 353] scandals involving Nixon’s administration (1972). [Am. Hist.: Kane, 460–462] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Democrats owe a big part of their victory in this month's elections to Republican scandal-mongering. To see and celebrate such gifts, though, we need to shift our attention from the scandal-mongering headlines and dwell a bit among the ordinary folk who, despite every incentive to the contrary, continue gladly to call themselves Catholic. The scandal-mongering that beclouded Clinton's presidency represented both a venting of the Right's rage at liberalism's quiet victories on the issues of sex, race, and religion and an evasion of conservatisms own political weaknesses on those issues. |
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