Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other ways of shocking friends such as Landor. He once sent the poet a deadpan note confiding 1) that he had fallen in love with Queen Victoria ("Don't mention this unhappy attachment," Dickens warned another friend gravely) and 2) that, in order to recover from this sad affair, he intended "to kidnap a [royal] maid of honor and take her to an uninhabited island." It was no wonder that London buzzed with fantastic rumors and no wonder that Dickens found himself furiously denying that he had suddenly "become a Roman Catholic and was raving mad in an asylum...
...fact remains that only about half of the graduating class shows up for the week of unmitigated senior glory. This is a preposterous state of affairs. For one thing, it leads the outside world to suspect that a large body of the class gives way to sloth. Admittedly, a senior who plans to see his four years through to the end is going to have to hustle around a little getting tickets and hotel reservations for his relatives. Too, the whole affair isn't exactly for free...
...rushed to the locks in armored cars. After four days of discussion between a Russian general and a British brigadier, the Russians agreed not to interfere any more. For the Russian retreat the Communist press had an odd explanation. The Russians, it solemnly assured its readers, had staged the affair in order to re-establish diplomatic contact with the Western Powers...
...Durocher, suspended from baseball for the second time Friday by Commissioner Albert B. Chandler after an incident at the Polo Grounds was hear toned by the support of many fans who said they witnessed the affair and declared Durocher was blameless. One fan even said he "accidentally kicked and tripped over" Fred Boyson. Boyson, a 22-year old Brooklyn fan, charged that Durocher hit him from behind, knocked him to the ground and scuffed him, after the Giant's 15 to 2 loss to the Dodgers Thursday...
...opening race of the afternoon was combination affair with the third varsity fifties, the second freshman fifties, and Tabor's second shell competing...