Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...records fell in the course of the afternoon as 44 men turned out for the annual affair. John Harlow, John Addington, and Lunine of Kirkland heaved the shot for a winning total of 125 feet, 8 inches, bettering the previous mark set by their housemates in 1938 by almost three feet, with Lowell and Adams finishing second and third...
...play ball with Haavahd, but because of "unfair scheduling tactics" we are forced to change our plans. Cornellians everywhere, upon learning Haavahd's motive in stirring up this latest ruckus, will undoubtedly be abashed by their hasty reaction to the Crimson charges. There is really nothing to this affair when one knows what lies behind those bitter words and they boil down to this--Haavahd will soon become a coeducational institution. Yes, when the doors of the University swing wide next September, women will be admitted to the famed Halls and Yawd of Haavahd for the first time since...
Winston Churchill defended General de Gaulle before the House of Commons last week. His version of the affair was that letting the six French warships out at Gibraltar was all a clumsy mistake, that the responsible officers were being disciplined. But knowing Britons told another story, according to which Winston Churchill needed some disciplining...
McCoy often describes his program as a family affair, makes frequent mention of his relatives, who provide, he says, his listening audience. He also likes to dwell on the doings of his dog, sometimes known as Only-Game-Fish-Swim-Upstream. Celebrated are his ribaldries. On winter nights he has announced that the cold has compelled Ripley to take the brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly...
Having survived a long, gruelling affair with Jim Jonkins only two days before, Harvey demonstrated his endurance against Wilson by coming from behind after the first set to outdistance his rival in the last two hard-fought stanzas...