Word: imbroglio
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...ashamed" of the essay in which he announced his joining of the Communist Party. He also notes that the party dropped him as soon as the essay was published, because he admitted having once doubted the total legitimacy of the Moscow trials. There is a comic poignancy to this imbroglio that pervades nearly all of Spender's political writing. His well-meaning, intellectual support of proper causes always left him at cross-purposes with improper people. He occasionally blinked at excesses, but he was never able to blind himself for long...
...this month about whether to develop the weapon seemed to confirm their doubts about the President's ability to lead the alliance effectively. Although Schmidt was publicly muting the impact of the episode last week, Bonn officials continued to complain privately, as one put it, that the neutron imbroglio "makes Carter's leadership even more questionable...
...firemen spend 24 hours in jail, then 24 hours under police guard in the city firehouse. Since the in-again, out-again fire fighters "are on duty in two shifts, they have managed to cope quite handily with the few small fires that have broken out since the imbroglio began in Normal...
...ordered the trial to proceed; the jury needed only 30 minutes to return with a conviction. Another way to wear down the opposition is to "paper" a case by filing motion after motion, each requiring a timeconsuming, costly response. This leads to what one judge calls a "Brobdingnagian procedural imbroglio...
Both Penders and McLaughlin are being considered to replace Dick Stewart, another Young Turk, as head coach of Fordham. Penders was recently interviewed for the past--but right now, all he's thinking about is tonight's impending imbroglio with Penn. As for McLaughlin: as the Harvard mentor said after watching his team lose to the Lions, "I wouldn't mind having a ticket for that game...