Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time it was learned that a triangular meet might possibly be arranged if Northeastern is able to enter either the Tufts affair on September 30, or the M.I.T. race on October...
...manner of praise should be given to the Committee that planned and carried out the affair. The Parker House Roof had everything and everybody was there. What a list of celebrities Governor Salfonstall, Admiral Theohold, Senator Walsh, Dinah Shore and Tommy Tucker to name a few. All these were invited and would have come if they had the time. But there were many there. Particularly in the cocktail lounge. There, a happy crowd gathered amidst pleasant conviviality, piled four or five deep. At one time I had the horrible experience of seeing my girl with four legs and three hands...
Wednesday night over at the Students Club a little informal was held for the WAVES stationed at Radcliffe. It was a very homelike affair. The living room effect of the main room of the Club was not disturbed but rather was enhanced by the appearance of the visiting ladies...
...Magnuson story was only another manifestation of unanswered U.S. suspicions that the Pearl Harbor affair may disclose skeletons in Washington closets. The feeling had been, heightened by Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel's reply to a Collier's article by Senator Harry Truman (TIME, Aug. 28). Truman charged that Army and Navy commanders in Hawaii had failed to cooperate, implied that both were heavily responsible...
Moscow seemed to feel that this uprising, which had been touched off by the Polish leaders in London, was none of Moscow's affair. London's Communist paper, the Daily Worker, declared that the revolt was a "bluff" staged by the London Poles to get credit for Warsaw's liberation. It appeared that the Red Army commander had not been consulted, nor had the Moscow-sponsored Polish Committee of Liberation...