Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coolidge pointed out that he did not intend to make a claim for the appointment. "I don't need the job, and the job doesn't need me," Coolidge said. "But I do think I have some legitimate grievances concerning the manner in which the affair was handled...
...SHAPE'S annual dining-in affair in Paris, glittering with NATO's top brass, slightly offbeat but recognizable supper music rose from the Royal Canadian Signal Corps band under the batons of amateur conductors, choppy General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and his first deputy, stabby Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein...
...Princeton. After Hoegh addressed a savants' meeting at Iowa State, a professor congratulated Hoegh on Iowa State's recent victory (48-45) over the University of Michigan's swimming team, then suggested that Hoegh take on Soapy Williams in a personal swimming match, a benefit affair to raise money for the Polio Foundation. Trim as he was in college, Governor Hoegh rose to the challenge, proposed a race of from 40 to 100 yards. Michigan's ex-Oarsman Williams was spoiling for a battle-with reservations: "The contest should be in the nature of a decathlon...
...converts to its sanitized policies, but naturally every new entrant to the sanity circuit cannot be rewarded with a spot on the crowded Ivy schedules. Chicago, however, is not a newcomer. Harvard, in fact, helped administer the coup de grace in Chicago's final season with a 61-0 affair at Stagg Field--one year after a 47-12 rite in Cambridge. Perhaps Harvard might atone for this gridiron homicide by welcoming the once disgraced Maroon back to intercollegiate football...
This is-novelistically-the British reply to The Caine Mutiny. It is a bloodier affair than just getting Queeg off his teetering bridge; some 50 sailors and Royal Marines are wounded, two die in a bloody free-for-all on the decks. The H.M.S. Ulysses is a 5,500-ton light cruiser, "the first completely equipped radar ship in the world," the seeing-eye watchdog of the Murmansk convoy run. Unlike that long-drawn-out, suspenseful business on the Caine, Ulysses' mutiny has already taken place, and this is the story of her glorious "redemption." This being the Royal...