Word: unseemliest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago that the department had shown "favoritism" toward Estes. Hales also dropped hints that he had been shunted to another job in the department, and denied access to the Estes files, because he knew too much about the case. Hales's transfer led to one of the unseemliest scenes ever enacted in the somber corridors of the Agriculture Department. Miss Mary Jones, a nervous spinster of 51, who had been Hales's secretary for eleven years, was upset about the prospect of being transferred to a new boss. After being out sick for two days, she came...
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