Word: innuendoes
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...session of a congressional subcommittee, he found himself at the center of a rising storm over influence peddling in Washington. Reporters mobbed him, cameramen jostled him, and flashing strobe lights so blinded him that he walked right past the committee-room door. "After five months of rumor, leaks and innuendo," Deaver bravely declared, "today is my day." But it was clear that the media's feeding frenzy had just begun and that the capital had been seized by one of its periodic fits of morality...
...complained that the meeting had been orchestrated "in such a way as to make it appear that the President ran into the eleven-year-old girl by chance." Seemingly, Moscow's decision to send Katya on the peace mission did not much dampen even the war of words and innuendo...
...attack on library staff and is likely to do so much damage to their effectiveness in dealing with library users that it cannot be ignored. "Libraries" don't drag their feet and "libraries" don't shuffle papers; only sentient beings can be described that way, and your form of innuendo effectively suggests that once again it's those dullards behind the desk who are standing between the students and the books. I solemnly reject that implication, because I can testify to the intelligence and integrity of the people who make the best they can of a large and complex system...
...snaps. "Everywhere I have traveled in the past year, the heads of governments receive me. I do not ask them to do a favor for a client, and I don't bring clients in with me." The flare of anger indicates how deeply the criticism stings. He refutes the innuendo: "Some time ago a foreign company offered me $1 million, to be deposited in a Swiss bank the minute the company chairman walked through the door of a certain important finance minister. It would have required one phone call -- the minister was a close personal friend. I turned it down...
...twelfth paragraph of the story, he or she would learn that I am indeed leaving Harvard next year--but only for a one year visit at another school. As I told your reporter, this leave was arranged several years ago, a fact conveniently omitted from the story. The innuendo in the story's statement that I have no "present" plans to leave permanently is unwarranted...