Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Misery Mountain. Thus began my second pokret, a seven-day affair along the 5,500-ft. Yadovnik (Misery) Mountain...
...been running the mile for two years, and last spring got down to 4:38 finishing eighth in a blanket finish at the Ohio State Championships. Previous in this affair he had blazed home to win the Dayton city-wide meet in 4:40, after fighting off half a dozen other 4:48 milers...
Early in August, the first events of the 1944 "Guadalcanal Decathlon" will get under way at Soldiers Field under the supervision of Jaako Mikkola, Crimson Varsity track coach, it was announced yesterday. This five event affair is open to all civilian, Army, and Navy students at Harvard, and particularly to those men out for track or cross country...
...discouraging people who have no essential work from leaving London. . . . Children are already being sent out of the danger areas. This battle may be a somewhat lengthy affair . . . but I am sure of one thing-that London will never be conquered and will never fail, and that her renown, triumphing over every ordeal, will long shine among...
...people. The Cardinal himself said: "I must publicly disapprove. . . ." The Liberal Party's Premier Adélard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth to one-half of one percent of the population [of Quebec] should not be taken too seriously. . . . Senator Bouchard is one of those who assert that a spade should be called a spade...