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Word: scandalizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allowed the political situation in South Korea to flounder to a point where old (77) Syngman Rhee could make the U.S. look ridiculous by cutting off Voice of America broadcasts (see WAR IN ASIA). The real point of the Rhee scandal is that after two years of war in Korea, the U.S. has neither been able to trust Rhee or to find some other leader whom it could trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Pursuit of Disaster | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...murdering a South Korean army captain. Suh's lawyer told the court-martial that his client had shot in self-defense and had been acquitted by the Assembly. Suh is not very popular with South Korean army brass since he brought to light a half-million-dollar embezzlement scandal in Rhee's army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN KOREA: Eleventh-Hour Reprieve | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...result of the accident. Childless Paula adopts the boy and sets about teaching him to talk again, although she realizes that once he regains the power of speech he may identify her to the police as the hit-&-run driver. To complicate matters a bit more, the slightest scandal would ruin the chances of Paula's husband (Kent Smith) becoming dean of his college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

During the spring the college atmosphere was explosive: Wilson died, the Teapot Dome scandal broke, and Copeland returned. The military admitted that you didn't have to take Military Science to play polo. Scared by the huge class of '27 the University decided early in March to limit the next year's freshman class...

Author: By David C.D. Rogers, | Title: Riots, Mental Telepathy, Exams and Probation Among Vivid Memories of 1927's Initial Years | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...Cruel Hoax." Ratliff and his committee, scurrying around in a hunt for outside capital, were forced to do most of their fund-raising after the paper was put to bed. During working hours, Ratliff himself dug up a series of beats on a local income-tax scandal that resulted in an indictment and a jail sentence for a Cincinnati doctor, Sidney Lange (TIME, April 21). But he was less successful with his own financing case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle for the Enquirer | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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