Word: indiscreetness
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Assigning blame for this confused state of affairs is like scolding two small boys for fighting over something that belongs to neither of them. Both sides share the guilt. The way that the five councillors chose to oust Curry established a bad precedent and was indiscreet. The city managership ought not to be a job which is actively sought after by one candidate or another. If there are councillors who are dissatisfied with the present manager, they ought to confront him and ask for changes. If this strategy fails, then they ought to look for someone else...
...reputation for being vain, fickle, unreliably charming and dependably indiscreet. Never too far from a mirror to lose sight of himself, he is a dude in his own parlor but usually a dud in anyone else's. Nonetheless, there is hardly a woman in the world today who can get along without him. Let her husband vanish, her housekeeper quit, her children join the Peace Corps anc her best friend move away; so long as ner hairdresser doesn't pull up roots, a woman feels secure...
...time, the Sharja royal family was assembled by the British and reportedly shown photographs of the Sheik engaging in what were described as "indecent acts." In addition, 35 cases of Scotch whisky were conveniently found in his palace cellar, thus proving him a bad Moslem as well as an indiscreet amorist. The royal family got the message. Denouncing his "flagrant misbehavior," it deposed Sakr, installing his pro-British cousin, Khaled bin Hamad al-Kasimi, 35, in his place. The unhappy Sakr, flown into exile by the R.A.F., was greeted in Cairo as a hero of the Arab cause...
...meets regularly with agent James T. Sullivan '36 to discuss student matters. "He'll never ask anything confidential. He's never been indiscreet with me," Watson says...
...said that the police have an extra car and two additional footmen patrolling the Radcliffe area every night. "But the big problem," he added, "is that the girls don't pull down their shades. You can look into their rooms after dark and see them doing all sorts of indiscreet things...