Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serpentine affair into which this innocent adventuress lightly steps takes her to a Lebanese mountain village, then to Jerusalem and to Cairo. Sardonic Sergeant Prayle of British Field Security tails her with amusement, with concern, and finally with love. Along the way the reader is treated to crisp descriptions of an ancient and holy landscape, of types ranging from a touchy Gaullist officer to an Orthodox archimandrite and his mistress...
...trying" cases in the newspapers without giving the victim a chance to defend himself. Many wrote long, violent replies to the questionnaire, predicting that such irresponsible attacks would cause the Government to lose its' best scientific talent. Seventy-five percent of the scientists questioned stated that the Condon affair had made them more reluctant to go into Government service. It has made 12% of them "decide to decline any such offer...
...Human relations are the key to our survival" in the divided world of today, President Conant told at Waldorf-Astoria dinner last night. The affair marked the one-hundredth anniversary of the Community Service Society of New York...
WHRV will record the evening's events on wire, edit it, and play the finished program the following evening for the benefit of those unable to attend the actual affair. Additional coverage has been promised by the Boston papers and several national magazines...
...particularly difficult one at Harvard. Council labors are, for the most part, hardly of the type that catch the imagination; Councilmen and candidates for office have been understandably squeamish about making a lot of noise about issues or their own qualifications for office. It has been a pretty sober affair, as undergraduates who voted last Thursday--or who didn't take the trouble to vote--can testify...