Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet into the sluggish water of the medieval moat that surrounds the palace walls. Japanese bystanders rescued the dog. The Tokyo press featured the incident. A few days later Ambassador Grew had an audience with the Emperor on matters of state. Like all such audiences, it was an affair of iron ceremony in which the Emperor's elevated sentiments were in Japanese, translated for the Ambassador's benefit. But as Ambassador Grew meticulously bowed his way out of the Imperial presence, the sacred Son of Heaven asked, in nonchalant English: "How's Sambo...
...Bowens were immured by the "affair of origin"-by their separateness from the native Catholic Irish who islanded their existence. Outside Bowen's Court rolled the violent bloody history of Ireland. The Bowens looked the other way. "The structure of the great Anglo-Irish society was raised over a country in martyrdom. To enjoy prosperity" (and enjoy it most of the Bowens did) "one had to exclude feeling, or keep it within the prescribed bounds...
...camera has ever made hateful. The grand. gloomy, theatrical fellow kills his pretty, weak, widowed mother (Dolores Costello) by the cocksure ruthlessness with which he prevents her marrying the man (Joseph Cotten) she has always loved. His selfishness and self-righteous pride of birth ruin his own love affair with Lucy (Anne Baxter), the vital daughter of Inventor Cotten. His character is his family's fate...
...longest fresh-water race (331 miles as the duck paddles), but according to old salts it is no less hazardous than the longer, more spectacular ocean races. In 35 thrashes to Mackinac since 1904, no lives have been lost, but enough boats have been disabled to give the affair a fearsome reputation. One year only eight of 42 starters reached the finish line. Often the winning boat takes nearly four days. Once an all-female crew took two weeks to get there...
...most U.S. railroad executives the whole affair was utterly fantastic. A little pipsqueak railroad had soundly beaten the giant Brotherhoods, slashed their demands by 75%. Not in decades had a big road extracted more than a handful of fluff from the Brotherhood featherbed. There was only one big hitch: G. P. McN. was still minus his railroad...