Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cloud seemed to darken perceptibly. Talk swept London's City-and the Continent-about the further lack of trust in Labor, about the possibility of the pound's devaluation, and about a deterioration in the balance of trade. Though not all-perhaps not much-of the gossip was solidly based on fact, it burned as persistently and as contagiously as a fire in a peat...
...does seem strange, however, that a College official who claims to have the student's interests as his first concern would be willing to gossip regularly with the FBI. Perhaps agent Sullivan is, in fact, "discreet," but we would prefer that the individual student decide what is confidential--not Dean Watson. Perhaps it is difficult to get students and agents together, but we would prefer that the FBI make and follow up its own appointments--not Dean Watson. Quite simply, the Dean of Students has no business acting as an operative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, however innocent...
...Neighbors. So where was Nikita? Moscow gossip placed him in a hospital at Rublevo, 15 miles from the capital, suffering from "blood pressure." However, Communists maintained that Nikita and Nina had retreated to their old, four-room apartment at No. 3 Granovsky Street, a section that compares unfavorably with, say, Manhattan's West Side around Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. But the social life should be interesting. Among other tenants officially housed in the building are two potentates purged by Khrushchev, former Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, as well as several comrades who gave...
...characteristic of Lyndon Johnson familiar to all Washington is his unquenchable penchant for intimate knowledge and gossip about everyone of importance in the capital. Was this one case where cops and security agencies-and who knows who else-were simply afraid to tell him about his aide...
Byron in Curlers. His book is a kind of protracted gossip column of the romantic period. Byron, he reveals, slept with his hair in curlers; Sir Walter Scott was as stout a trencherman as any character in his historical novels. Gronow was a friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes...