Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palestine Scandal. The indictment was overdrawn but not incorrect. Farouk, who could have been an uncommonly intelligent and able King (and occasionally was), turned out in the main to be an uncommonly gross and unrestrained one. He gave free rein to all his appetites-from women to power, and treated his Premiers as he did his girl friends, changing them constantly (five Premiers in one six-month period). After the birth of his only son he made a valiant effort to straighten up, and brought in honest Premier Hilary Pasha to purge the corruption that was endangering the government...
Childhood: Grew up in Whittier, about 15 miles from Los Angeles, worked in father's gas station, delivered groceries. Favorite family anecdote: when Nixon was a boy, he read about the Teapot Dome scandal in the papers, told his mother: "When I get big, I'll be a lawyer they can't bribe...
...Pasha continued his story. The intermediary was Kareem Tabet Pasha, a sort of amateur Rasputin who has been floating around Cairo for years. Tabet Pasha, King Farouk's press counselor until 1951, actually functioned more as court jester, five-percenter, and fellow nightclubber. Investigations into the Palestine arms scandal -in which defective arms were purchased and supplied to Egyptian troops fighting the Israelis-had repeatedly turned up his name. About nine months ago, Farouk dismissed Tabet, who scurried off to Switzerland. He had returned recently to Egypt...
Price Controls. No prices were lowered by the bill, but many will probably be raised because of it. The bill sensibly prohibits controls on fresh fruits and vegetables, since the recent potato scandal demonstrated that they don't work. But the bill also took controls off processed fruits and vegetables, including frozen foods, baby food, soups and most canned goods. Since most such foods were already pressing against their ceilings, OPS predicted they would go higher. An amendment tying ceiling prices to state minimum price laws is also expected to boost the price of milk in 17 states...
...clerk at the publisher Hachette's, started Zola off on the main track of his career. He ran a literary gossip column for a scandal sheet, hacked out newspaper serials, and even managed to publish a couple of poor books...