Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Private Dread. Now that Premier Nahas' once popular Wafdist government is troubled by financial scandal, and his people by economic distress, he turns-as Egyptian politicians always have-to twisting the lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that...
Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the Cleveland Press, probably knows his readers better and talks to them with more immediacy than any other leading U.S. newspaperman. Noting that the U.S. air of 1951 was saturated with moral scandal, moral doubt and moral confusion, Editor
...million lire ($1,600) a day. The Communists piously forbade San Marinese themselves to enter the casino, relied upon a steady stream of wealthy, land-owning Italians and foreign tourists. Said San Marino's parish priest resignedly: "At first the parishioners thought the casino a scandal. Then they got used to it, for the price of furnished rooms began to rise considerably. There is hardly a family which does not have a croupier as a paying guest at 20 to 25,000 lire a month. My parishioners live up to the motto: 'Since you eat, why shouldn...
...Americans agree on what education is or should be. Throughout the U.S. last week, the West Point scandal (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was raising dust storms of argument. The dust might obscure the old, sphinxlike questions, but it blended nicely with the U.S. moral climate-which Americans in general found squally, humid and oppressively misty. And obviously education had something to do with that ethical mistiness. Nearly everybody -from editorial writers to policemen-had something to say on the subject...
...wherever they placed the blame, educators knew that the scandal was not West Point's alone. The subsidized athlete was still a plague, and no one could be so naive, admitted Dean R.B. Browne of the University of Illinois, as to "believe the appearance of a blue-chip athlete on a college campus would take anyone by surprise." At William and Mary, two coaches resigned last week after the athletic department was charged with faking high-school grades to get promising athletes in. Even parents have been tainted, said Retiring President Alexander G. Ruthven of the University of Michigan...