Word: gamiest
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...file its brief against a new trial. Meantime, FBI agents have been scurrying around Chattanooga questioning everyone named in the affidavits. The Justice Department plans to ask a Tennessee federal grand jury now in session to investigate charges of "massive perjury" in connection with Hoffa's latest -and gamiest-bid to stay out of jail...
...fact, been relentlessly incredulous. As a crusading managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, he nosed out some of the gamiest scandals Chicago has spawned. In 1951, when a police officer named Michael Moretti was cleared by a grand jury for killing two unarmed youths in a parked car, Akers sent an irate memo to his staff: "The Moretti case stinks to high heaven. I want to go after this as we have never gone after anything before." Despite threats on his life, Akers kept his staff digging until there was enough evidence to put the cop on trial...
Bobby Baker was not the only one who would have liked to see the whole thing called off. His presence was a source of intense embarrassment to Democratic Senators. Up to five months ago, when he became the central figure in the gamiest Washington scandal in years, Baker was secretary to the Senate's Democratic majority...
Time was when some of the gamiest reading this side of Paris was to be found in the instructive pages of the marriage manuals. "In this little book," says the preface to the 1939 edition of Married Love, "Dr. Marie Slopes deals with subjects which are generally regarded as too sacred for an entirely frank treatment." Many a young heart thrilled with pleasant astonishment at Dr. Slope's revelation that "most women ... do at times feel a physical yearning indescribable, but as profound as hunger for food." Generations of schoolboys have plowed eagerly through the verbal thickets of Ideal...
Cannes, the fun-and-gamiest of film festivals, ended last week with Italy's La Dolce Vita as the unanimous choice for the Golden Palm first prize. Starring Anita Ekberg and dealing aimlessly with the sensual corruption of modern titled Italians-from the Via Veneto's sophisticated sodomists to the industrialist's young daughter whose idea of let's-go-slumming is to make love in the chambers of a prostitute-Director Federico Fellini's film has already provoked a church furor in Italy. In Cannes last week, it also set the tone...