Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats cannot hope to carry the state-gave a cocktail party for the faithful to meet Jim Mead and Herbert Lehman (the ALP as well as the Democratic candidates for governor and Senator). Jim Mead sent regrets. Herbert Lehman showed up, but ducked any discussion of the Wallace affair. Many an ALPman was deep in defeatism...
...since the Wallis Warfield affair had elite London drawing rooms echoed to such a coo of deliciously subdued conversation. "My dear-not the King of the Greeks!" "And just after he had won the plebiscite!" "How awful for the Foreign Office!" "And for the poor dear Hellenes!" "Hasn't he grown children, or something...
From Hong Kong, in 1930, Ho tried to organize a Viet Nam revolt, but failed, and hid under several new aliases while the affair blew over. During World War II, he turned up in Viet Nam as Ho Chin Minh ("Mr. Ho the Bright Spirit"), turned out the Japanese puppet ruler and organized an anti-French rebellion. Once in power, he decided that Communism could wait. Says Ho: "Almost 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ said we should love our enemies. We are still far from that ideal. I do not know when Marx's ideal will be achieved...
...read with interest your Aug. 5 column of social notes from Tegernsee. Two summers ago, our outfit [A-Co., 141st Inf., 36th Div.] was entertained briefly on the shores of the lovely "indigo" lake-a"small, intimate affair sponsored by a group of 55 troopers, and watched by about 5,000 Wehrmacht convalescent wounded...
...Week" is the climax of the year's activities of the IOCA, in which representatives of most of the New England and Middle Atlantic college outing clubs meet at Lake Coldon, in the heart of the Adirondacks, for a week of camping and mountain climbing. This is an informal affair with each member supplying his own equipment food, and transportation...