Word: reproof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King Farouk, whose own position was rendered almost as shaky as that of the British by the hog-wild nationalist uprising, abruptly fired the lot of them, with ironic thanks "for what you have done" and a reproof for failing to keep "security and order." To form the new government, he appointed an old friend and adviser: Aly Maher Pasha, 68, one of the richest men in Egypt, who has served twice be fore as Premier. As Chief of the Royal Cabinet when young Farouk first came to the throne as a boy of 16, Maher Pasha had formed...
...reporters, disappointed that the talk had not produced more news, Adenauer had sensible reproof. "It is accomplishment enough," he said, "that for the first time since the war, Franco-German talks have at last begun at the very top level. Why should we have been expected to begin [by settling] such a red-hot question...