Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main purpose that the informal affair will serve is to enable Coach Jaakko Mikkola to get a line on his squad, which he characterizes as "balanced," and one to be "hopeful" about...
...Curtin's indignation at a BBC broadcast announcing that Casey had accepted the new post. In conversations with Downing Street, Curtin had indicated that, although the choice was up to Casey, the Australian Government preferred that he remain in Washington. Curtin promised a White Paper on the affair and complained: "I learn what my Minister has done from the world at large...
...concert had all the ingredients of a prosaic, academic affair, but the result was anything but stuffy. Three of Johann Sebastian Bach's six famous Brandenburg concertos were to be played by a small body of musicians (such an orchestra as Bach had in mind), with scrupulous regard for the composer's intentions (as deduced from a study of Bach manuscripts), without a conductor (as it would have been played in Bach's day). After Adolf Busch had put his Chamber Music Players through their paces last week in Manhattan's Town Hall-in their first...
...CRIMSON was unable to secure any more information from Stillman last night except that his condition was "satisfactory," and other University officials either declined knowledge of the affair or refused to comment...
...Last week's chief affair of state was the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vichyfrance. By the country from whom Italy once expected to receive Nice, Corsica and Tunis, she was given only the frontier town of Menton, where the zone of occupation ends at a row of pavilion lavatories...