Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a series of scandals in 1954, Texas finally got fed up with the worst insurance regulations in the nation, passed 23 new laws to plug loopholes. Last week, for all its trouble, Texas was rocked by the worst scandal in the state's checkered insurance history...
Probably the world's top Saudi Arabia authority is H. St. John Philby, the British Orientalist who served for years as King Ibn Saud's adviser. Recently in the London Sunday Times Philby delivered a harsh judgment on what he called "the Scandal of Saudi Arabia." A few roads, waterworks at Riyadh, Mecca and other places, some hospitals, a few public buildings, and the 350-mile railway that Arabian American Oil Co. built to connect Saud's capital with the Persian Gulf are about the only constructive achievements that he can find to list to the regime...
Superintendent Milne is forever trotting about his schools to see that every thing is going all right. In 45 years the Albuquerque school system has known neither political squabble nor personal scandal, and as long as John Milne is around, it probably won't. "Actually," said one townsman last week, "he'll never really retire. He'll keep on going until the day he dies. And on his deathbed, his last words will be some new idea for the Albuquerque schools...
...Dolls pictures Havana as a mecca for vice. It even goes to the extreme of presenting an honest missionary (Jean Simmons) who, influenced by what she sees here, gets drunk and passes out on a strange potion from a coconut shell in the midst of an atmosphere of scandal and prostitution." Luis Conte Aguero, Diario Nacional columnist, harking back to an earlier assault on Havana's morals, put it differently: "There is a lot of truth in the story, but there are also a lot of false statements, and what is definitely false, and what is irritating...
Back from a meeting of Roman Catholic bishops in Washington came Bishop Jeanmard and took drastic action. To Erath he dispatched a monsignor to read a letter of excommunication at all Sunday Masses of Our Lady of Lourdes. No individual was named, but those who had caused "a scandal to the church, a scandal to the community" by committing violence against Teacher Ortemon were denied the Sacraments, participation in the Church's prayers, and Christian burial? until they repented...