单词 | Teapot Dome |
释义 | Teapot Dome (once / 47278 pages) n WORD FAMILY Teapot Dome USAGE EXAMPLESPresidents—invoking Tippecanoe, free and fair elections, slavery, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Teapot Dome, and beyond—to the tune of “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” The New Yorker(Nov 09, 2016) Nevertheless, it does not, so far, add up to anything close to a real scandal, such as Watergate, Iran-Contra or Teapot Dome. Los Angeles Times(May 27, 2016) But in Washington his name got mixed up in the Teapot Dome scandal, involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves. Wall Street Journal(Feb 26, 2016) n a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration Syn|Exp Teapot Dome scandal outrage, scandal a disgraceful event |
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