Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese troops had made a second crossing of the treacherous Salween River. But Martaban, choked with decades of the Salween's silt, has little or no strategic value as a port for water-borne assault against Rangoon, across the Martaban Gulf. The Martaban-Rangoon railway is a flimsy affair. And troops crossing the Salween near Paan, 90 aerial miles from Rangoon, were met last week by deadly accurate British Blenheims, sowing thousands of pounds of delayed-action fragmentation bombs that cut the invaders to shreds...
...informal practice meet between the Yardlings and four Greater Boston private schools been a score affair, the Freshmen would have it with their four firsts and four seconds, Roxbury Latin was their nearest rivals, with three firsts, while Noble and Greenough, Browne and Nichols, and Huntington followed in that order...
...Crimson Yardling track team will play host this afternoon to four private school squads, all from around greater Beston, in an informal practice affair at Soldiers Field. The meet, which starts at 2 o'clock, will feature every event from the pole vault to the 1,000 yard run, and will not be officially scored. However, times will be taken...
...Frau Dr. Ullstein in 1930, she was the storm center of a sensational Berlin spy trial involving the once-great Ullstein publishing house. Later, as plain Rosie Goldschmidt, she wrote (under the initials R.G.) Prelude to the Past, in which she described with unusual candor the Ullstein affair and one or two of her own. Still later she married the Hungarian Count Waldeck, a marriage in which friendship and German passport considerations were deftly blended. She is now in Manhattan...
...Crimson two-mile relay team got a case of stage fright, and that, coupled with their relative inexperience, partly accounts for their loss to a strong Dartmouth team, and a seasoned Cornell aggregation. The mile relay quartet lost second place to the Elis by inches in the Big Three affair, which was won by Princeton...