Word: scallywagging
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...liaison, including how she and Major planned assignations as they sat behind Thatcher during Prime Minister's Question Time in the House of Commons. The disclosures may have revised his reputation, but they could also land him in legal trouble. In 1993 Major sued the New Statesman and Scallywag magazines for libel over articles suggesting he was having an affair with a Downing Street caterer. The basis of Major's claim: It was unthinkable he would commit adultery. The cases never went to trial - like most libel actions, they were settled out of court. But both publications incurred debilitating costs...
...seeking redress the old-fashioned way. The British Prime Minister announced plans to initiate libel suits against two magazines for printing allegations that he had conducted an extramarital affair with a fashionable London caterer, Clare Latimer. The long-whispered rumor was printed last month in the satirical monthly Scallywag, and repeated, albeit skeptically, by the left-wing weekly New Statesman and Society. Latimer, 41, promised similar legal action...
...horses pounded down the homestretch, Parisian Maurice Luca was certain that he had picked a winning tierce.* France's noted jockey, Roger Poincelet, had whipped Scallywag−one of Luca's betting choices−into third place, and there was barely a furlong left to go. Suddenly Poincelet eased up, and so did the horse. Scallywag finished out of the money. Track stewards suspended Poincelet for his disappointing efforts, but Luca had his own disciplinary ideas. He sued the jockey for $20,000, the amount he stood to collect had Scallywag placed at least third...
...Council rally at the municipal auditorium. They stamped and shouted as former State Senator Willie Rainach ranted warnings of the "conspiracy for the destruction of the white race," and Leander Perez, the notorious political boss of Plaquemines Parish in the Mississippi Delta, foamed at Jews, Catholics, Negroes, "Judge J. Scallywag Wright," and at Mayor de Lesseps Morrison as "weasel, snakehead Morrison...
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