Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battered body were found the identification papers of a 25-year-old religious fanatic named Juan Roa Sierra, but there was serious doubt that they were the dead man's own papers. Everybody agreed that the Communists had had a hand-right up to the elbow-in the affair. Secretary Marshall had denounced "the same definite pattern which provoked strikes in Italy and France and is endeavoring to prejudice the situation in Italy's elections." In Washington, the Central Intelligence Agency released secret reports from Bogota that Communists had planned to sabotage the conference. But nobody had succeeded...
...spring's gaudy carpet rolled north last week, the drive-in theaters were opening almost as fast as the daffodils. This week, New York City will get its first "ozoner": a 600-car, $300,000 affair on Staten Island. Six were open in Dayton, Ohio alone, and six would be running in St. Louis by summer. According to Boxoffice, more than 200 new drive-ins this year would swell the U.S. total-a mere 100-odd when war ended-to 546 built & building...
Plans have just been completed, and the whole affair will be conducted like a national convention. Keynote speeches will precede the nominating addresses. After these, the actual roll-call will be taken, and nominations considered on the split delegation basis through which every candidate gets the exact number of personal votes cast...
William A. Rusher 3L, who expects that many will come with less peaceful interests than nominations, will supply a little additional color to the affair when he posts bluecoat in strategic posts, "just to make sure nothing unfortunate develops...
...dances are already scheduled for the affair. One will be the big formal ball on Saturday night at which two, count them, two bands will supply the music. On Friday, there will be an informal dance in Mem Hall...