Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later there was the case of assault-the day the priest, armed with a hammer, chased a quack healer out of town. And a case of battery-the day Zamorano beat up a knife-brandishing thug. Worst of all, there was a political scandal...
...columnist printed the news that the girl on the nude calendar was Marilyn, and the scandal broke full about her ears...
Give a country a king who has become an international joke and scandal. Let it be ruled by a clique of entrenched grafters whose platform is to bleed the poor. Equip its army with inadequate and defective weapons and have its soldiers humiliatingly defeated in the field. Result: revolution. So goes the very recent history of Egypt, and so goes the theme of this first novel by Author Maarten Schiemer. The Cry of the Kite is a fictionalized account of how fat Farouk's restive Egypt became the spitfire Egypt of Soldier Gamal Abdel Nasser...
When the University of Washington fired Football Coach John Cherberg (TIME, Feb. 13), it sailed into a storm of scandal involving under-the-counter payments of money to players by booster alumni. But Washington was apparently still more interested in victories than in its reputation, so it hired young...
Under the title "New Scandal in Texas" [Dec. 26], you referred to "U.S. (for 'United Services') Trust & Guaranty." We have been informed by the Texas Insurance Department that the letters "U.S." in the title of the U.S. Trust & Guaranty Company do not mean United Services. Your reference has confused a number of the officers of the armed forces who are insured by United Services Automobile Association. This association is a large and financially strong insurance organization, which has been serving the commissioned and warrant officers of the U.S. armed forces for many years...