Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Breath of Scandal. In Sumas, Wash., after Border Patrolmen Ralph Johnson and Verdun Hockett found 10 Ibs. of garlic cloves in a pack being carried by Raymond Driscoll, 18, of British Columbia, Driscoll explained: "I want to go to California to find some friends; no one in Canada likes me because I like garlic...
...marquise, and deported him in a fit of jealousy. Two years before his expulsion, he had got hold of operating control of the Chosen Corp., a British company which owned some Korean gold mines. It was a typically slippery operation. The company was in the midst of a management scandal (the director ultimately went off to Wormwood Scrubs prison), and the stock was momentarily cheap. Before Serge made his down payment, the stock began to rise in value, and by the time the air cleared it was apparent that Rubinstein had got in for nothing...
With unaccustomed haste in such a case, the regime had decided to dispose of the embarrassing family scandal before Marshal Tito got back from his grand tour of Asia. The trial was said to be public, but the 100 seats in the dingy old courtroom were parceled out to hand-picked Communists, to the defendants' wives, and the lawyers. The court would not admit Djilas' aged mother, on the ground that the trial might prove too much of a strain for her. Nor would the court admit any of the 14 Western correspondents stationed in Belgrade...
...Free French Air Force. Actually, duels (with pistols), though often banned in France's gallant and tempestuous history, are by no means uncommon even in present-day France, particularly with newspaper editors, theater critics and existentialist painters. But the Foreign Minister's involvement threatened a government scandal...
...spite of much improvement since it was last inspected in 1935, the Medical School was in many respects 15 years behind the times. Its facilities were overcrowded, its salaries "definitely low," its library "grossly inadequate." As a matter of fact, almost every library at the university was a scandal. The English Department had a book budget of only $600 a year, and the law library had only $8,000 compared to the University of Virginia's $23,000. The association's summary of the music library: "Dictionaries-poor; History of Music-unsatisfactory; Theory-unsatisfactory; Musical Form-poor; Counterpoint...