Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trounced 41 to 35, the Gold Coasters gave another boost towards the championship to a high riding Standish Freshman five led by Dick Firth, who netted 15 points. In this marathon, the score was tied at the end of the regulation time and it took two overtimes before the affair was finally settled...
There were other harsh words on the Senate floor. When North Carolina's Josiah William Bailey sought to apply the principle of the May-Bailey bill to the Senate's hodge-podge affair, he was soundly beaten. Bitterly he said: "Cologne fell today. Our soldiers may have to go on through Germany. Let them go, with the understanding that here at home we will do just as we please...
Except for a vague affair with a mysterious Belinda, whose importance in his life Bowers doubts, and his attempted seduction of a married woman, Jefferson's young manhood passed without romance known to history. His marriage to the young widow, Martha Skelton, was happy...
Romance at 43. The closest Jefferson ever came to behaving with youthful indiscretion was at the age of 43, in his affair with Maria Cosway. At 22 this vivid, lovely, talented girl had married Richard Cosway, 39, a friend of the Prince of Wales and the most fashionable miniature painter in London. Maria was herself a painter of distinction, and apparently a virtuous woman, though gossips credited her with love affairs with the Prince of Wales, a singer, a painter, and the secretary of the Neapolitan ambassador...
...reasons. One of them was a conclusion any oldtime dealer in Government material could reach if he took the long view: the Goldberg affair was only a small, noisy example of the confusion to come, as surpluses are worked off through private contractors. Another was that the Mead Committee hearings had proved that the real surplus disposal trouble lies not so much with small potatoes like Surplus Liquidators, Inc. as with the Government itself. Investigators have found repeated indications of the same offhanded waste in disposal as there was and is in the procurement of war goods. They have also...