Word: peccadillo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hymietown" slurs about New York City in 1984. The Democrats running last time out made only muted responses to those anti-Semitic comments, nor did they stress Jackson's ties with black Hatemonger Louis Farrakhan. Last fall Jackson received a similar free ride about a far more minor peccadillo: his brief and ill-advised commercial endorsement of a chain of business schools. Had another candidate made a comparable financial arrangement, his judgment would surely have been attacked...
...lately been running ahead of Jepsen in the polls, but observers warn that it is still too early to count the Republican out. For one thing, the influential Des Moines Register, which has hardly been a Jepsen sympathizer in the past, urged voters to disregard the sex-club peccadillo and focus on the issues...
Spark's story is the narration of the break-up of this marriage. Harvey and Effie part ways abruptly when Effie reveals to Harvey that she has just stolen two chocolate bars. This peccadillo, superadded to other problems in the marriage--Effie married Harvey for his money, has had frequent affairs, and disagrees with him on most important things--causes their separation. Harvey retires to a village in France to continue his work on Job. Effie takes a lover, has a baby, drops her lover, and, having taken another, becomes a terrorist. Her activities for the Front de la Liberation...