Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unabashed, the News got the high-ranking fraternity Chi Psi to stage a Sadie Hawkins dance, arranged to brew for the affair Dogpatch's favorite drink, Kickapoo Joy-Juice, invited Li'l Abner's Creator Al Capp to the celebration, sent application forms to women's colleges...
...graft-rotten sea transport, uncoordinated military plans, incompetent ministers in London. Roger Lamb's sharp eyes are open also to the wonders of the New World: St. Lawrence scenery, hoop snakes, strange herbs, the odd customs of the Indians and the Yankees. He also has a fresh-air affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits at the sight of a whipping or of blood glistening on a bayonet, he spares his readers a like reaction. Romantic neither in the Wordsworth-Shelley nor the Zanuck-Selznick sense, Lamb's tale is stanch...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola's Varsity hill and dalers yesterday defeated Yale, 27 to 29, but lost to a fighting Princeton aggregation, 29 to 26, placing second in the annual triangular affair over a 5.1 mile course at Middlesex Fells...
...Generalissimo in a passion because transit visas through Spain which he had given to Refugee Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot and Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak had not been honored by the immigration police of Brother-in-Law Serrano Suñer's Ministry of Government. "It is an affair of honor!" the Colonel reportedly told the Generalissimo, "I gave my word of honor that they should pass!" Instead, MM. Pierlot and Spaak were in jail in Spain last week, at Axis request...
...undefeated minor sport elevens will attempt to continue along victorious ways this afternoon. Langdon Burwell leads the cross country squad against Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire in a triangular affair over the Charles River course at 3:30 o'clock. Coach Jack Carr's soccer squad travels to Hanover for an important New England Intercollegiate League game...