Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funeral-which Harrison attended with his wife to show gossips they were not "rifting"-was a splendid affair. She was buried holding an orchid in one hand and wearing two on her dress...
...affair on Orizaba, however, had only touched off a growing Mexican resentment. The slaughter of precious but aftosa-ridden cattle had been hard to take. And Mexican tempers had long been riled by the behavior of some U.S. members of the anti-aftosa commission. Some of them (one U.S. official described them as having a "Texas mentality") had scoffed at their well-educated but poorly paid Mexican colleagues. Few of the Americans bothered to learn Spanish, few tried to understand Mexican temperament...
...this time the Mexican papers were easing up on the Orizaba affair but, still steamed up, had launched a hot-headed crusade against American influence in the Mexico City Y.M.C.A...
...Embassy had received a flood of congratulatory telegrams-unsigned. Good students of history, the men of the Kremlin must have heard other echoes: the names of Kossuth, Kosciusko and other heroes of national independence. Here was the sharp point of their dilemma. For the great incandescent fact of the "Affair Tito" was simply this: like Tito, many a non-Russian Red still wanted to think of himself as a Yugoslav, Pole, Czech or Hungarian and not just a Kremlin stooge. Its peril lay in the fact that guerrilla-wise Tito knew this, and alone among satellite satraps had the necessary...
Born. To Joan Bennett, 38, cinemadventuress (The Macomber Affair), and third husband Walter Wanger, Hollywood producer (The Long Voyage Home): their second, her fourth daughter; in Los Angeles. Weight...