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Word: woodshedding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1963-1963
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No Separation. As for the Profumo case, though an official inquiry into its security aspects is nearly complete, the government has given little assurance that it will lessen what the Economist recently called "the already cumbrous weight of suspicion that there is something nasty in the woodshed." Last week the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Bobbies in Trouble | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

Among other hints of nastiness in the woodshed, or the police station, Britons were perturbed by recent charges that Scotland Yard had browbeaten a convicted prostitute into testifying against Ward (she later recanted), and by speculation that police deliberately failed to produce a defense witness at the trial of "Lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Bobbies in Trouble | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

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