Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last Tuesday Clinton had his answer. No one spoke the word fired when he and Aspin appeared at a quickly arranged press conference to announce that the Secretary would be leaving his job in January. But Washington gossip had been building for months that one or more members of the President's foreign-policy team would have to go. The October battles in Somalia that left 18 American servicemen dead had merely provided a focus for the growing sense that every time the Administration stepped abroad it stumbled. Though Aspin may not have been the man most responsible...
These tapes show Johnson at a time when he thought he could talk openly and unctuously to the media. His wilder moments, while they were the endless topic of inside gossip and mirth, rarely surfaced in print. That time would end within a few months, but not before he had one last fling at fulsome flattery. From a call to the New York Times' Arthur Krock: "Well, Arthur, you're a mighty wonderful friend . . . and I need you now more than I ever did before, and I read your column just this minute . . . and I just thought how fortunate...
Under present law Charles and Diana would have to remain separated for another year before they could divorce -- but the government could probably massage the laws if it chose. Gossip meister Nigel Dempster reported last month that Prince Charles had promised to marry his paramour, Camilla Parker- Bowles -- which would depend not only on the Prince's being free but also on Camilla's divorcing her Catholic husband. At the same time, Dempster also suggested that Diana was still hoping for a reconciliation with the man who, in one secretly recorded exchange, expressed his wish to be reincarnated...
...writings were to have served as Bob Packwood's monument, to be published years after his death. For more than two decades, every morning for 30 minutes, he scribbled his recollections of the day before, thoughts both philosophical and quotidian, ranging from political ruminations to juicy gossip. As he described it, the writings contained "the hopes and the dreams and the despairs...
Syndicated daytime talk show; syndicated gossip show; QVC home-shopping network announcer...