Word: indiscreetness
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...April 2, two weeks before the baseball season opens, Ted will report for his physical. If he passes, he will start getting a captain's base pay ($356 a month) and probably go to work at his old wartime job: teaching cadets how to fly. Airman Williams, an indiscreet talker when he gets his dander up, said the right thing this time: "If Uncle Sam wants me, I'm ready. I'm no different than the next fellow." Just to show that it was impartial-and not out to sabotage the Red Sox pennant chances-the Marine...
...Duveen assistants, President Edward Fowles and Vice President Bertram Boggis. The old "super-customers," as Vice President Boggis calls them, have disappeared. In their place are some "very good customers." Who they are, Fowles and Boggis prefer not to say. "Nobody would deal with you if you were so indiscreet as to tell...
...sins of commission & omission they cite make a long list. Instead of reporting, they say, an increasing number of newsmen are taking sides and slanting stories, e.g., forming a protective ring around Arkansas' likable Senator William Fulbright to keep him out of hot water by not reporting his indiscreet frankness...
...blind, doddering and virtually a prisoner in Windsor Castle. His son George, the Prince Regent, was fat, gross and so unpopular that he hardly dared show his face in public. When he did, he was booed. His adulteries were public knowledge, but his broad-beamed princess, Caroline, was also indiscreet. Soon, and quite openly, she was to take an Italian lover and stand a parliamentary trial for her conduct. London's streets were full of soldiers being demobbed, and the most popular man in England was Alexander I, Czar of Russia, who had conquered Napoleon (with some help from...
Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "If a labor member had been guilty of so indiscreet and offensive a reference to a friendly nation the matter would have been plastered across the headlines. But . . . Churchill. . . can display boorish ill manners and the Tory press does not give so much as a deprecatory cough...