Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sabers & Scandals. Traveling by plane, car, canoe, muleback and on foot, he visited every single one of Peru's 144 provinces, something no other politician could say. He promised lower food prices, farm machines, low-interest loans "for the welfare of the common man." His enemies tried to shout him down. One morning in 1957, he fought a clanging saber duel atop a Lima airport building with a Congressman who had called him a "demagogue and conscious liar" (both were slightly nicked). A year later, his wife left him for another man. and the scandal rocked Lima. Bela...
College officials last week assured the outside world that they were "concerned" about the drug situation in Harvard Square. You could sense it. They really were concerned--concerned that the minor furor over drugs would grow and become the 1965 version of last year's Sex "Scandal...
...over drugs has confirmed the obvious: Harvard is a rich, prestigious place, very vulnerable to attack. A Harvard scandal--or anything that hints of scandal--is a big story for any newspaper...
During his first term in office, Governor Volpe purportedly turned his attention to the state's county correctional system. Tainted with scandal, inefficient, poorly staffed, costly beyond belief, the county penal institutions had the hard-earned distinction of being one of the most embarrassing aspects of Massachusetts. In what was thought to be a genuine attempt to correct this situation, Governor Volpe convened a special commission consisting of eleven of the most respected men in the Commonwealth to study the county system of correction...
...rest of the movie, filmed in Hong Kong and at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, offers picturesque backdrops as a substitute for the subtle erosion of character. After the Patna scandal, Jim works as a coolie and coal heaver. In the Malay Archipelago, he saves a boatload of burning explosives, ferries them upriver to help the natives of the fictional land of Patusan, who are fighting a tyrant general (Eli Wallach, aping Fu Manchu). Victorious, Jim settles down with a dusky girl (Daliah Lavi), then has to dispose of villains who plan to sack the village treasury...