Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writes Koestler, "even in the service of an impersonal cause-is always a personal and intimate affair. Thus it was inevitable that this book, written for the most part in the actual expectancy and fear of death, should bear a private character...
Freshman registration, a Memorial Hall rat-race in any year will be crowded to capacity today because of the compressing of what is usually a three-day affair into the brief space of 12 hours...
Landlubbers may think that a U.S. naval officer spends most of his time on shipboard either leading the fight or practicing for it. This notion would be shaken if landlubbers could see an officer's tall, steel desk, a formidable affair with apparently enough drawers, slats and pigeonholes for a post office. For the streams of red tape on land flow right out to sea. An officer spends many an hour shuffling papers in the pigeonholes, dictating to a yeoman or even hunting and pecking on his portable, creating more red tape for other officers to shuffle...
Even Harvard's education will be a speeded-up affair, and the old days of quiet bull-sessions over a glass of ale and frequent evenings spent in Boston have probably disappeared for the duration if not forever...
Murphy was the same curveball artist who shut out the Crimson with four hits last month, and although he allowed no more this game, errors by his teammates gave the Varsity a fighting chance. The extra-inning affair, however, was the closest the Crimson has come to beating the Crusaders in Cambridge since...