Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such matters were grist for the congressional mill, but they hardly stacked up as a solid campaign"But none of these mistakes adds up to scandal, or even superficially documents such wild charges as Kefauver's that the President had to cancel the Dixon-Yates contract because it was be coming more scandalous, more smelly, all the time . . . When Memphis, in June 1955, announced it had arranged to build its own power plant at the expense of local basic points he taxpayers, made the in 1952 President...
State's ousted Immigration Consultant Edward Corsi called the program a "national scandal" (TIME, May 2). Cried Corsi: "Refugees are investigated to death" by McLeod's "security gang." Actually the security check has barred very few refugees. Out of 2,199 applicants in Germany and Austria, only 51 have been rejected on grounds of security...
...best of Novelist-Playwright Calder Willingham, who adapted his own novel, End as a Man, a couple of seasons ago into an unexpected Broadway hit. Incident is about a married woman, incapable of having children, who pours her maternal affection on a 19-year-old boy, causes a painful scandal, finally realizes that she ought to adopt a child. The writing was aimless, the plot pointless, and Actress Stapleton had the ungrateful chore of playing a woman of monumental stupidity...
...fall from grace had all been a mis take, the Russians had explained, perpetrated by Soviet Police Chief Lavrenty Beria. Now that Beria was executed, the Russians were correcting their error. When a reporter asked if she feared being arrested again, she replied confidently: "From the amount of scandal it caused through the rest of the world, I don't think they will do that again." Was she angry about the arrest? Oh no, she answered. "Injustices occur everywhere." If the State Department grants her a passport, said Journalist Strong, she expects to visit Red China as well...
...voting independently of either liberal or conservative factions in the pre-Roosevelt court, later shifted to a more conservative position under the New Deal; of a heart attack; at his home near Phoenixville, Pa. Plainspoken, scholarly Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist, he headed the controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration of blame for unpreparedness. after his retirement devoted much of his time to fostering support...