Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stertz had partitioned off with sleazy grey curtains. The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table. It cost $6 a week. Betty shared a dirty bathroom with the janitor and six other girls...
Winston Churchill rammed his heavy glasses on his nose and rose to the attack. "It is quite clear that the Government have no plans of their own," he snorted. "Is this business or politics? This statement wears the aspect of a . . . thoroughly disreputable performance. . . . This whole affair is nothing but a political ramp!"* When harassed Prim& Minister Attlee refused to promise full debate before nationalization steps were taken, a Tory backbencher flung an excited "Hitler !" across the House at him. In one hour of hectic debate, Winston Churchill was on his feet 25 times, plainly relishing every minute...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg criticized U.N. for its self-inflicted title. (He would prefer UNO.) "Un what?" cried the distressed Senator. "It sounds like an emasculated affair. United Nations isn't that and can't be that. When you say, 'Un,' you haven't done anything but grunt." The Senator grunted...
...truck, loaded with what looked like a big box, rolled along a Washington street last week, came to a stop beside a filling station at the corner of Connecticut and N Streets. Swiftly the boxlike affair was unloaded. In exactly 3½ hours, nine men had turned it into a two-bedroom house, ready for occupancy. In this eye-opening way, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. put on exhibition its prefabricated house, built by its subsidiary, Wingfoot Homes...
...Teheran, Premier Ahmed Gavam announced a "complete agreement" with Moscow covering departure of the Red Army, a Russo-Iranian oil company with the Soviets holding 51% control, and direct Teheran-Azerbaijan negotiations as "an internal Iranian affair." The tie-in was as plain, if not as pretty, as a Persian poet's metaphors...