Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affair of the rooks was much graver and tempers accordingly rose higher. The British rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a black, glossy, gregarious bird of the crow family, closely resembling the U.S. crow, old Corvus brachyrhynchos, some of whose unpleasant habits it shares (e.g., eating eggs from other birds' nests). But there are those who love it. And the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries had decided that there were too many rooks. It urged county committees to shoot 80% of them...
...Prentice series, which was an annual affair before 1925, when the alternate-year plan was adopted, has gone the Americans' way in seven of the 12 meetings. In 1939, three stalwart Crimson stars paced the Harvard-Yale forces to a decisive victory in England...
...homely affair. The dingy convention hall was undecorated, except for three red flags and a few tired banners. The 250 delegates smoked steadily and stolidly, causing the chairman to cry: "Keep your butts off the floors!" There were no parades; no foolish talk of victory...
...Jourdan) who takes rooms across the hall. Busy with more full-blown girls, he scarcely realizes that she exists. When her family moves, Lisa cannot endure the separation; she runs away, and haunts certain Viennese coffee houses and street corners until the pianist picks her up. During their short affair her lover experiences a faint glimmer of tenderness which might end his philandering, but it doesn't register strongly enough for him to bother looking her up when he returns from a concert tour. Lisa bears his child, marries rich for his son's sake, tries to make...
...central characters of this meandering story about an adolescent love affair, mercurial Denis and marshmallow-sweet Lise, are difficult to take seriously as human beings. But Lemelin writes with vigor and energy, he is rooted in the life of the people about whom he writes and knows exactly what he is talking about; and, most important of all, he is steadfastly honest. Roger Lemelin may yet write novels that will make not only French Canada but the entire western world acknowledge him as an important writer...