A downward slide is hard to stop, and the bottom was not far away when, in 1859, The New York Times reported "a lively personal recontre" at the Leroy Place Hotel, No. 5. "A well-known political bruiser," Pat Mathews, had an exchange of views with Billy Mulligan, of "general pugilistic notoriety," and each bit off the other's nose.
He achieved no general fame or notoriety and assumed no role of special prominence in the affairs of society as a result of his contempt citation or because of his involvement in the investigation of Soviet espionage in 1958.
The general first achieved notoriety as one of the officers who brutally suppressed a 1988 pro-democracy uprising, commanding troops around Rangoon University — a center for demonstrations — and giving orders to fire on a crowd of protesters in front of Rangoon General Hospital.
This reflects his influence on the band's own avant-garde experiments as well as the general fame and notoriety he had achieved by that time (1967).
As a Scaf general, he achieved international notoriety by defending the subjection of female detainees to "virginity tests", claiming it was to protect soldiers from allegations of rape.
Outspoken and brash, General Kvashnin came to notoriety in Russian military circles after he commanded the Army's ill-fated armored thrust into Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in the winter of 1995.
Two British generals who achieved both notoriety and fame in the Second World War – Arthur Percival, who surrendered Singapore, and Bernard Montgomery, who would never surrender – had earlier in their military careers fought the IRA in Cork – O'Callaghan's county.
Justice Cooperman, citing what an assistant state attorney general later called "the extreme notoriety of the case," prohibited lawyers from talking to reporters about the trial.
But General Massu's greatest fame and notoriety rested on his role in Algeria.
The movie gained notoriety after censors kept the film from general release in a dispute over Russell's cleavage.
