Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rhymed Suspicion. This bland explanation disturbed citizens who had expected some day to see the Charter, properly signed & sealed, in a glass case like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The whole affair seemed very suspicious to such incurably suspicious journals as the Chicago Tribune. The isolationist Tribune published a frontpage color cartoon of F.D.R. fishing, with this jingle...
Quaint as it appeared, the balloon was a practical and efficient affair. Inflated with hydrogen, it was capable of lifting 800 lbs. The FBI discovered that the Japanese had obligingly printed a good deal of information on the bag. It had been completed only a few weeks before, on Oct. 31, at a Japanese factory. Japanese characters also revealed the number of hours spent in its manufacture, data regarding work shifts...
...Army's public relations have often been far from candid. Samples were the story of the tragic shooting down of U.S. airborne troops by friendly antiaircraft batteries off Sicily which the Army and the Navy covered up for eight months; the Patton soldier-slapping affair, suppressed until it had built up so much steam it almost blew the dome off the Capitol. Another sample was the sour finale to Merrill's Marauders (TIME, Aug. 14). A more recent one: the handling of the production-slump story, which, instead of rousing the public to greater effort, provoked controversy...
...position of this Government has been consistently that the composition of the Italian Government is purely an Italian affair. . . . This Government has not in any way intimated to the Italian Government that there would be any opposition on its part to Count Sforza. . . . We have reaffirmed to both the British and Italian Governments that we expect the Italians to work out their problems of government along democratic lines without influence from outside. This policy would apply to an even more pronounced degree with regards to governments of the United Nations in their liberated territories...
...middies and those juniors who left the bar will attest, this was a bang-up affair. A great success for all, it was a memorable birthday for Mr. Salmon...