Word: delicto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just not acceptable that a director of a major commonwealth enterprise should be on pillow-talk terms with the head of government," sniffed the Melbourne Herald, Australia's largest evening paper. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, 57, had not been caught in flagrante delicto; rather his wife Margaret, 54, was being heckled about her latest job. A trained social worker, Margaret Whitlam is a director of the Commonwealth Hostels Ltd., an organization that administers government housing. "Drop it, Meg," was the Herald's blunt advice. But Mrs. Whitlam, whose liberal views on abortion, sex and marijuana have shocked Australians...
...Muller expects the worst from human beings and has not been disappointed. He once arrested a court clerk in the act of taking a lawyer's bribe right under the judge's nose. He recalls walking into another judge's chambers to find His Honor flagrante delicto with a prostitute he had just acquitted. At a national Democratic Convention, Muller has observed an incumbent President staggering drunk and a naked call girl being thrown out of the hotel room of a prominent favorite...
...State, County and Municipal Employees descended on local supermarkets last week to monitor prices. Self-styled gumshoes working individually have so far reported 12,209 possible violations to local offices of the Internal Revenue Service and the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Nearly all of the firms caught flagrante delicto have quickly agreed to comply with the freeze...