Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Scandal. Nasser was dealt an even sharper blow in the Trucial States,* which lie on the Gulf side of the horn of Arabia. There, in the tiny, impoverished sheikdom of Sharja, where Britain has an R.A.F. base, Sheik Sakr bin Sultan al-Kasimi has long been the Gulf's only pro-Nasser ruler. When the Egyptian-dominated Arab League proposed a big aid program for the seven Trucial States last year, six of them turned it down at British nudging. Sheik Sakr, 39, on the other hand, joyfully accepted the offer and invited an Arab aid mission...
...precedent is always useful in court, so Gina Lollobrigida, 36, was saying: "The theater has always been full of daring performers since Grecian times -even the great Greta Gar bo, who undressed much more than today's actresses without creating a scandal." La Lollo was in a Roman court on charges of "outraging the public morals" by appearing apparently nude behind a bed sheet in Le Bambole (The Dolls). This was silly, said she, loftily. No great actress tries to create a scandal. "Even a spicy part can be done seriously." And besides, she cooed to the judge...
...barrier against the burning German gambling fury used to be the entrance rules. Now one can get in if he earns $200 a month and exhibits a certain chic-which may only mean wearing a necktie." Adds Von der Groeben with obvious relief: "We haven't had a scandal since the casino opened in 1948. We have yet to hear any shots in the night, and the Ahr River is too shallow to drown yourself...
...followed hard on the heels of the drug scandal, and after a lengthy debate over parietal hours within the University community, the Harvard sex scandal (as told by the Record American) found its way onto front pages across the country. Dean Monro's latter about "wild parties and sexual intercourse" soon ranked for readership with Peyton Place. Harvard undergraduates bought out the Square newsstands to read about the parties they were supposed to be attending...
...been intercepted while sneaking through Kenya on their way to him from Tanzania. He also needed to spring their 47-man escort, whom outraged President Jomo Kenyatta had ordered tried for arms smuggling. More important, he needed to patch up the three nations' common market, which the arms scandal had nearly destroyed...