'embroglio' selected by ArtSlant jury for winner Showcase!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

The slow drip of the Rezko embroglio is going to end his campaign mercifully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Responds To Bill's Reference To Jesse Jackson] Reference

MS. MYERS: The question was -- Brit's still trying to get to the bottom of the great face cut embroglio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Am Press Briefing By Dee Dee Myers] Reference

Of course all of the people in the know think that only the Wright embroglio inflamed to its worst will save Hillary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Campaign Manager Hints Clinton Camp Has "Pattern" Of Questioning Obama's Patriotism] Reference

The grounds for my objection on that score will appear in the next chapter, which deals with the Missouri embroglio, as it was called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Well, it certainly was one of the ideas that was raised, and it's, I think, an indication, again, of President Mubarak doing what he can to try to find a way out of the current embroglio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background Briefing On The Violence In The Mideast] Reference

But there's an ugly undercurrent to the macaca embroglio, for which Allen also has to be held responsible, as his campaign handlers attempted to deflect blame for Allen's gaffe on the news media and on "scurrilous attacks by our opponent and his leftist 'allies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Eisele: Sen. George Allen: Losing is like macaca] Reference

Venezuelan embroglio proved that the Kaiser had in mind smashing the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey Through France in War Time] Reference

Negroes the feeling that the political embroglio is an unclean sphere which the minister should not enter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Negro Church] Reference

There were good reasons why Pitt and his colleagues should not commit themselves deeply to the Haytian embroglio.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference

"Let's get the facts about this present embroglio, Anderson, before we make arrangements for another," put in Mr. Squires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anderson Crow, Detective] Reference

"Though the plain fact is that ever since the Herzegovinian embroglio the Ballplatz is little more than a counterpoise to the Wilhelmstrasse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Frenzied Fiction] Reference

As it stands, this embroglio is a lesson which I have got by heart and am tired of: I would like to set it aside and turn to something more cheerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pessimist In Theory and Practice] Reference

So, the NeoCons and the Zionists, they together want to hatch a conspiracy so that Obama gets trapped into a situation where for next four years he keep on sorting out this embroglio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference

So, among the many obligations that America owes to Washington, must be named this one of pushing Thomas Jefferson, the scholar and man of peace, into the political embroglio and shutting the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen] Reference

One day, in an idle but inspired moment, I paraphrased a song from "Pinafore," applying it to a college embroglio, and the brief and lively vogue it enjoyed was sufficient to indicate a future usefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

If I handle my end of this miserable affair without making a break of some kind or other, I shall apply to the Secretary of State for a high place in the diplomatic service, for mere international complications are child's-play compared to this embroglio in which Goward and Aunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors] Reference

However, with Milton Bradley back in action for Chicago, I arrived at the park musing that there's always going to be the chance that you'll see something incredible-some feat of skill and strength from the switch-hitter, perhaps also some bit of unhappiness afield, or perhaps another embroglio inspired by his striving bleeding over into strife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Prospectus] Reference

The Chancellor accepted the different reports of the commissioners, and the successive projects of settlement, with a certain despair of any scheme of abstract justice, with little hope of even a peaceable solution, and with a not unnatural desire to rid himself of the whole unsavoury embroglio, and to detach himself from the angry and envenomed faction fight in Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference

President and his clerks may have sufficed when there were from thirteen to eighteen States; while there were no Territories, or none at least that required government; while the population was still below five millions; while a standing army was an evil not known and not feared; while foreign politics was a troublesome embroglio in which it was quite unnecessary that the United States should take a part.    From Wordnik.com.  [North America] Reference

I might have some intelligent things to say over the course of the next few days, but to start out, here's what i've been reading over the past couple of days: greg palast ably puts the continuing hugo chavez embroglio into perspective. found at metafilter, where jefgodesky ties it all together in a neat little package.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: r@d@r guestblog no. 1] Reference

"He dwelt much upon the Cuban embroglio, and said that he had told the Committee on Foreign Relations that if they waited until spring they had better declare war, but that he would never be responsible for such a calamity.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him] Reference

Nurse;” but, as we believe, there are thousands of excellent wives and mothers who pass through life without even a temporary embroglio in the kitchen, or suffering a state of moral hectic the whole time of a nurse’s empire in the nursery or bedroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

The whole thing is an embroglio.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase] Reference

There's many a domestic embroglio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

I shall be free of this infernal embroglio.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

What an embroglio! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [If I Were King] Reference