Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chester had his first affair (with a Creole cousin) at nine, now has a young married woman as his mistress. Ashamed of his family (his brother is a prize fighter), Chester is often depressed, fears that poverty may prevent him from going to college and becoming a doctor. Once a white man chased him with a gun because, while hawking newspapers, Chester refused to stop yelling: "Louis K.O.'s Braddock." Chester says he hates white people. When white folks humiliate him, he "sees red," but is afraid to fight back...
Your sympathetic reporting of the exploits of those daring young airplane snitchers [TIME, July 22] has evidently colored my viewpoint of the whole delicious, delightful affair. There's two kids after my own heart and it has captured my imagination. Thus this letter...
Most irritated by the whole affair were Britain's censors, who had passed the picture before it was retouched, hastened to disclaim it as an official photo. Propaganda-wise, they feared that authentic pictures would be questioned hereafter, that Britain's official air claims might even be doubted...
...guns, chose butter. The issue was survival. Last week Germany in victory, Britain in jeopardy each gauged the consequences of its choice. Last week the U. S., nursing a seedling realism, also appraised those consequences in terms of the first serious threat to its continental security since the Trent Affair in 1861. Above all, Americans wanted to know how & why Britons had made the mistakes they made...
...that most dingy of Japanese official buildings called the Gaimusho, a flimsy affair of wood and beaverboard, whose shabbiness is accentuated by the grandiose Navy Office across the way, Japan's new Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, introduced himself to his staff one day last week. His was a critical audience-blunt Yoshizawa of the American Division, cross-eyed Spokesman Suma, dyspeptic middle-aged clerks and angry youngsters who think Japan should expand all the way to the Suez Canal-who had seen Foreign Ministers come & go like rainstorms. They expected thunder in this maiden speech...