Word: scold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gray-haired, stocky and tall for a Bengali (6 ft.), the bespectacled Mujib always wears a loose white shirt with a black, sleeveless, vestlike jacket. A moody man, he tends to scold Bengalis like so many children. He was born in the East Bengal village of Tongipara 51 years ago to a middle-class landowner (his landlord status accounts for the title of sheik). Mujib studied liberal arts at Calcutta's Islamia College and law at Dacca University. He lives with his wife Fazil-itunessa, three sons and two daughters in a modest two-story house in Dacca...
...banking committee or a blue-ribbon commission of legislators, Administration officials and experts is expected to open major hearings on the entire U.S. financial structure. All this constitutes a personal triumph for Patman, a self-styled "money nut," who had long been regarded by many critics as an ineffectual scold or a crank advocate of easy money for everybody. Today nobody laughs at Patman, least of all the bankers. "The time has come for me," says Patman in his misleadingly benign way, "and I'm going right...