Word: indiscreetness
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...Borlenghi, had turned up a diary with an entry under July 4 which read: "Independence day of the United States. The most glorious of all days. Our big sister." Thundered Borlenghi: "This proves that this episode was directed from abroad!" Diarist Mantel will be brought to court for his indiscreet sentiments...
Major General Robert W. Grow was publicly introduced as the U.S. Army's highest ranking lackwit three months ago when a Communist newspaper in Germany published stolen excerpts from the indiscreet diary he kept as military attache at Moscow (Sample: "War! As soon as possible! Now!"). This week the Army began an official review of his literary habits. The Pentagon drew up court-martial charges against him for "improperly recording . . . and failing properly to safeguard classified military information...
...letter was a somewhat indiscreet one for a young matron to write a middle-aged widower-especially when the widower was the eminent Thomas Jefferson, U.S. minister to the court of Louis XVI. Nonetheless, Maria Cosway, 29, wanted a portrait of Jefferson, and she was direct enough to write and ask for one. "It is," she added, "a person who hates you that requests this favor...
...course of defending himself against this not very grave charge, Clubb produced his personal diaries. These contained very candid entries about the Foreign Service and about Clubb's colleagues. These convinced the State Department Loyalty and Security Board that first examined the case that Clubb was too indiscreet to be a secure repository of secret information. Nevertheless, a month ago Clubb was allowed to retire with a pension of $5,800 a year; he announced that he had been cleared by departmental "processes," which everyone assumed meant State's investigating board...
...ruins of the Cornish Castle of Tintagel. It soon develops that the romantic young man is in love with the beautiful young girl, even though she is married and her husband is along. About the time this situation has begun to look hopeless, both romantically and dance-wise, the indiscreet lovers drink to each other, and go into a magic-potion trance. The stage darkens, the ruins of Tintagel fly up, the dusters, derbies and veils come off, and in a flash the trippers have turned into Tristram, Iseult, King Mark & Co., all revealed in brilliant medieval array...