Anchor: So long as gossip busied itself in coupling their names together, any other vagaries of the doctor's passed unobserved.
Entailed: Because people had the doctor's love life to gossip about, they ignored other things.
Contradiction: Many aspects of the doctor's life were whispered about.
Contradiction: We arrived there yesterday.
Contradiction: Shipping lanes needed protection from piracy.
Contradiction: Kids are riding bicycles.
Contradiction: A man is working.