Word: unravels
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...prince's image began to unravel inOctober, after The Crimson reported that thesecurity detail Harvard police officers wereproviding to the royal family was taxing routinepolice work. Then sordid details of the prince'spast began to surface. Newspapers reported thatduring the past decade the prince was accused ofholding servants as slaves in Saudi Arabia andEngland and that police searching the prince'sFlorida home were attacked by royal bodyguards,the prince and his wife...
...style assassination of Hollywood entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty, who were shotgunned in the front room of their mansion. Menendez had been an executive and director of Carolco Pictures, an independent movie company that produced Sylvester Stallone's Rambo movies, and police have been unable to unravel his business affairs or identify all his partners. Carolco is controlled by a Netherlands holding company that is, in turn, owned by a tangle of offshore family trusts...
After a gleaming second round, things started to unravel. Leg injuries ran amuck. It was a coach's nightmare...
...complex a constellation. NATO and the Warsaw Pact will have to shed their military dimensions. The European Community will have to define its attitudes toward Eastern Europe. The two Germanys will want to expand the web of existing agreements between them, an interweaving of interests that neither can unravel without harming itself. In years to come, perhaps a German confederation within an expanded European Community may emerge, but in an age of new perceptions, it may not matter what it is called...
...things begin to unravel too much [in East Germany], there will be a crackdown and government by decree and martial law," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, a member of the National Security Council under former President Ronald W. Reagan...