Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Webster-length vocabulary. In The Web and the Rock, George left his home town, Libya Hill, Old Catawba (North Carolina), to become a famous writer in Manhattan. Much of The Web and the Rock was taken up with the fits & starts and impassioned prose of a love affair between would-be Writer George and wealthy, married, Jewish Scene Designer Esther Jack. When love threatened to supersede writing, George fled to Europe. You Can't Go Home Again resumes this unsatisfactory affair after George's return. But the novel is only incidentally about George and Esther. It is about...
...Japan the matter of grave moment was not the prospect of De Gaulle forces acquiring control of French Indo-China but of Japan being maneuvered out of her final chance to end the "China Affair." Her front, thinned out dangerously to cover 2,000 miles of Chinese territory, was being pushed back in the north, and southern Japanese forces, stranded in Kwangsi Province, faced methodical extermination unless aid arrived via French Indo-China. To advance farther into China was to risk having supply lines cut from the rear. Japan's only hope of quick victory lay in a flanking...
...year-old man with duodenal ulcer who had married a servant girl was on bad terms with her, was having an affair with another servant. He felt that his standing in the community, once high, was crumbling. When he was tested like the others, his acid flow was quadrupled...
This month Hunter students get a new building and a new president. Their new building, a 16-story affair at 68th Street and Park Avenue, is as splendid as a cine-mansion, with thickly carpeted floors, teakwood walls. Among the first to move in (the building was not quite completed) was Hunter's new President George Nauman Shuster...
...Petersburg, was sentenced to death for revolutionary conspiracy, instead spent four years in prison, six years' exile in Siberia. Jailed with murderers & thieves, he exclaimed: "What a wonderful people! On the whole I did not lose my time." While his consumptive wife died slowly, he pursued a wretched affair with Polina Suslova, a wild, rebellious hussy who bobbed her hair, wore dark glasses, never went to church. He lusted for roulette, thought he had a "system," was systematically cleaned out. He sifted the newspapers for tales of murder, scandal, disaster, folly. The wary police eyed him till death exiled...