Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like McCormick's dealings with the Res, this was presumably legal-and occurred before Guterma's illicit stock operations became known. But once again McCormick could be faulted for ethical misjudgment. Given McCormick's undeniable services to Amex, his colleagues might, in different circumstances, have taken a less stern view of his peccadilloes. But when the SEC investigations get into full swing early next year, the governors of the American Stock Exchange will have all they can do to defend their exchange as an institution, without having to make the case for Little Mac as well...
...this diverting trinomial theorem is a dentist (Michael Redgrave) who has drifted out of the sex habit. The lover (Richard Johnson) is a bookshop owner who collects other men's wives like first editions. The wife (Googie Withers) is a happy mother of two who embarks on an illicit affair with the booksy chap to balance her emotional diet...
...three more Government employees in hot water. Scarcely had the Boston industrialist been ensconced in Danbury, Conn., federal prison to begin a year-and-a-day stretch for tax evasion, when three of its staff-a janitor, a machinist and a cook-were suspended for helping him keep up illicit correspondence with friends on the outside. As for the gregarious Goldfine, he landed in "segregation," pending investigation of the alleged letter smuggling...
...famous "troika"-or three-man-control over all aspects of a test ban. This would give the Communists a veto any time the Western member at a lonely inspection post deep in Russia decided a suspicious cloud of dust or a distant rumble needed checking out as a possible illicit nuclear explosion...
...anticipating a doctrine which may be in the womb of time, but whose birth is distant." He was also a charitable judge who could write, in reversing a lower court's refusal to grant citizenship to a woman because of contentions of bad moral character, that "a continued illicit relationship is not inevitably an index of bad moral character...