Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Family Affair. In Manhattan, a homecoming merchant seaman, informed by customs authorities that it would cost $5 to take his lately acquired Russian wolf hound ashore, decided to wait a while, eventually forked over $30 for the wolf hound and her five brand-new puppies...
About the Commissioning; For a while it looked as though we were going to wear work grays to the affair but now I expect we'll be in whites. The other day I tried on my whites for the first time. While I was walking back from the hall we use for a fitting room, I received orders for three chocolate covered and one popsicle...
...origin everywhere: too much government intervention in men's livelihoods. To Mises, Laski's way of thinking is mumbo jumbo, utterly divorced from reality. To Laski, Mises' ideas are about as useful as a stone hatchet. Soviet Heaven? Laski's book is a jeweled affair, packed with all the learned rag, tag, and bobtail that has become embedded in a remarkably assimilative mind. The Laski argument is developed in sweeping assertions. The world has suffered a breakdown in values. It is hungering for a new religion. But traditional Christianity will no longer fill the bill...
...thought up, oversees and half-owns the show. His score on guessing the decisions is close to zero. One decision which bothered him occurred in the case of a wife whose husband admitted that he loved another woman but wanted her to stay on while he pursued his new affair. She asked the jury what to do. They voted unanimously in favor of her staying...
...Discipline. Neither side had their hearts in the quarrel. The Greeks fell back, firing at random. A stray bullet killed a British officer, the affair's only casualty. At 3:45 a.m. a grimy mutineers' delegation asked for terms; above all, they wanted Greek political unity. Tight-lipped British officers listened politely, then told the delegation to go back, get properly cleaned up and return with an unconditional surrender. By the dawn's half-light the Greeks were back, clean and submissive...