Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monday afternoon I, with the rest of the world, read the details on the Margaret-Townsend affair. Wednesday morning, across the continent from your editorial offices, TIME arrived with the story...
...South Africa's walkout in the U.N. a fortnight ago, on the ground that racial segregation is its own domestic affair, saved South Africa from debating its activities in South West Africa, which it would find harder to justify and more of the U.N.'s business...
Bolshevik Revolution. It was a heady affair ringing with Old Bolshevik Kaganovich's boast that the 20th century would be "the century of Communism, was a tonic to abstemious old Vyacheslav Molotov who has never been able to disguise his implacable hostility to the West or to play with any conviction the role ot a man out to relax tensions. That night he exulted to a newsman: "I have heard many good things in Moscow. I am leaving for Geneva with even better baggage than I brought...
...faction. In the midst of the crisis, a heart attack flattened President Joāo Café Filho, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Luz, took over as Brazil's Acting President. Luz, suspected of being a golpista, ruled against War Minster Lott in the affair of the loose-lipped colonel. Lott resigned, and Luz promptly named a golpista general as War Minister...
...Princeton mud affair, which the Crimson won 31 to 0, pointed out a still greater improvement, both offensively and defensively. The line held, even in the ankle-deep mud. Tailback Jim Bell broke away for a long touchdown run and began to contribute many of the yards gained by rushing. Merkel came through with three scores, two on long gallops. Ron Johanson began to hit his highly developed ends. Warren Huff and John Sourcek, with successful passes...