Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this whole affair may seem ludicrously petty, and indeed it is; but it seems to me also to typify a more-or-less prevalent attitude among some of the local police. Several times recently I have been witness to some unnecessary pushing and manhandling of students by the constabulary (in one case, they were merely watching and cheering firemen who were fighting the very minor Little Hall fire) and the relish with which it was done, and the expressions on the officers' faces, were all too reminiscent of movie gangsters...
Last summer, when Kostov returned from a trade mission to Moscow, he still talked about the magnificent assistance Bulgaria could expect from her Soviet ally. But he soon found out that trade with Russia is a one-sided affair. He began to rebel against the slow, deliberate sacrifice of Bulgaria's economy to Russia. "He followed a policy which lacked sincerity and friendship toward the U.S.S.R.," said the Communists' bill of particulars against Kostov. "Comrade Kostov was moved by a conscious individualism [toward] unhealthy ambitions...
...feared that it was not so much out of affection for him as out of an interest in how he'd leave his money. But he settled down to enjoy the countryside he had known as a young fellow, and to watch with a critical eye the love affair and marriage of Ann and his nephew Robert...
...love affair of Ann and Robert had mighty little spirit and even less romance old Tom Wilcher thought. After they were married, Robert returned to the fields phlegmatically modernizing the farm, and Ann calmly took up her chores, all as romantic as a baked potato. And naturally they drifted apart...
...This affair, which opens the two-month season a bare week from Saturday, is looked upon with some trepidation by Tom Bolles, the proverbially conservative coach...