Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observed Komsomolskaya Pravda indignantly: "The worst part of the whole affair is that, having spent three days in a different institution, Bylinkin did not notice any difference in the nature of the work of two such different organizations as an Oblast Komsomol Committee and an Oblast Agricultural Committee...
...Government tried to fend off charges of negligence and complaisance by blaming the affair on 1) Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party; 2) fascist members of the National Armed Forces, led by agents of General Wladyslaw Anders, wartime commander of Polish forces in Italy...
...inter-House competition is rapidly developing into a catch-as-catch-can affair, and a shortage of players for competing Houses has resulted in frequent drafting of non-residents to fill out the squads. Lyons, the winning Kirkland pitcher, hails from Winthrop House...
Despite this light disclaimer (written on April Fool's Day), Lincoln appears to have begun the affair at a full, rolling boil-declaring that he would "catch, tie and marry" the lady. She was 30, he 29 and a member of the Illinois legislature. For about 18 months he continued at a simmer-traipsing over to see her at her sister's house, begging her to "say something that will please me, for really I have not been pleased since I left you." But he ended the affair tepidly with a negative proposal...
...given the veterans with the largest families. Without hesitation, the two couples with children--three each--wrapped up their ikons and moved over. For the large families it was an apartment with three bedrooms at a monthly rental of $35, and for the less prolific tenants, a double-boudoired affair at five dollars less. Furniture, which many of them didn't have, was available for rent at a few dollars more...