Word: scuttlebutt
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...scuttlebutt around Boston's sprawling Navy Yard was too hot to ignore. For a price, went the rumors, a sailor could get a peek at secret examination questions, latch on to a promotion, or wangle a cushy desk job instead of sea duty. The commandant of the First Naval District started an investigation...
...attacked. Acheson's peril, however, lay not so much with critics of his foreign policy, as with its friends, who feared that his unpopularity jeopardized the policy. It was their outspoken worrying that lent credence to reports that within a month or two Acheson would quit. Most scuttlebutt simply had him returning to private law practice, but elaborate guessing said that he might step up to the Supreme Court and be replaced by Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...scuttlebutt in Washington last week was that Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was on his way out. He was in serious trouble with Harry Truman, said the gossips-including a few Administration insiders-and he might even have to go before November, however damaging that might be to Democratic election chances...
...became one of the Navy's best pilots; in 1932, he won the personal Navy E for dive bombing and fixed (i.e., fighter) gunnery. In his spare time, while other officers swapped scuttlebutt over wardroom coffee, Sherman read economics and world politics. He poured out scholarly articles for Navy publications, studded them with quotations from Napoleon, Lee and Moltke, ranged in subject from critiques on the 1918 air war in Palestine to suggestions for carrier design. Many of his contemporaries found his singleminded-ness irritating. But his superiors were delighted with a staff officer they could lean on; subordinates...
...selection of friendly, unassuming "Whit" Griswold, who favors quiet tweeds and drives his own maroon jeep station wagon, came as a surprise. New Haven scuttlebutt had been tossing around the name of Secretary of State Dean Acheson ('15) and others. President-Elect Griswold seemed as surprised as anybody. Said he: "It was so sudden I've had no time to make plans. My wife is bearing up bravely ... I feel fine...