Word: transgressors
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...among diplomats, smuggling Western consumer goods--their peers are supposed to recall them to righteousness. The party had a series of weapons for these situations, ranging from a slap on the wrist, vygovor (a reprimand), to expulsion. But the party prefers to redeem rather than punish. The higher a transgressor's rank, moreover, the greater the tendency to cover up his misdeeds...
...politician replied "John would think of that as a legal fee to which he was entitled. He wouldn't think of it as a bribe." The white knights of the Special Prosecutor's Office had toppled one Nixon crony after another, and Connally looked like merely another transgressor of the public trust, caught red-handed...
Charles de Gaulle's government is squirming over a new affront to French pride - and this time the transgressor is a Frenchman, Pierre Bercot, the imperious head of Citroën, France's second biggest automaker. Climaxing months of secret negotiations, Bercot revealed plans last week for a union of his ailing company with Fiat, the Italian automaker that ranks fourth in the world, behind only the U.S. Big Three. "It is not a question of Citroën's troubles," Bercot said, "but the problem of the entire European automobile industry." That problem, as the French...
...been able to discount any likelihood of a coup by Brazil's studiously constitution-minded armed forces. But even the military has given him fair warning. Last month 73 retired "pajama generals," with 2,800 years of service among them, issued a manifesto labeling Goulart a "flagrant transgressor of the law," charged that under him "subversion is not only officially tolerated, but desired, directed and aided." The generals concluded grimly that the armed forces "are not obliged to preserve or guarantee the government...
...hoist for foul ball. When athletes were injured, claret flowed, not blood. On one occasion, the Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward, outraged at receipt of a story in which some ballplayer "belted" a homerun, whipped off his own belt, waved it before the eyes of the transgressor, and bellowed: "Did you ever see anyone hit a baseball with one of these...