Word: affair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...party had hired a cab in Zurich, and gaily roller-coastered 60-odd miles through the Alps to Chur. The ceremony itself was an intimate ten-minute affair at the local registry office. The wedding feast: coffee and cakes in a patisserie. Then back by cab to picturesque Zurich. Then off to Bern and the Hotel Bellevue...
...Cantabs, with Crocker showing the way, gave warning of a repetition of last Saturday's hair-breadth affair when they pressed Van Ingen and forced him into seven saves during the early minutes...
...politicians knew that Bevin was right. But U.S. Senators roared: if anyone had played politics with Palestine, it was the British Government. At week's end a chastened Bevin hoped wistfully that the whole affair was just "a matter which stands by itself. . . . We for our part shall not allow any wedge to be driven between the two countries...
...present the Bureau is a part-time affair, but this summer, while others are away at the beaches, the entrepreneurs want to dig in. And when winter rolls around, they expect to be firmly established in their enterprise...
...three agree that 1) the true strength of a nation rests on the family; 2) the off-again-on-again marriages of Hollywood stars set a bad national fashion-and are at least partly responsible for the soaring U.S. divorce rate; 3) Hollywood marriage, therefore, is not a private affair but a matter of public concern. Dr. Goldstein sums up: "The social responsibility that rests upon each one of us demands that our private life be equal in moral tone and inspiration to our public performance...