Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge city manager, who issued one of the permits, gave them no trouble; but the State Commissioner of Public Safety turned their application down. He felt he could not approve the picture after just a few cuts because the central theme of the film was an illicit love affair...
...Cambridge election lacking the usual goal of throwing the rascals out is, at best, a dull affair. Yet this year it is an important affair, for the present School Committee, dominated by a majority from the Cambridge Civic Association, has quietly and effectively improved local educational standards. There are no sensational issues, no smears, no charges of graft; there is just the simple issue of keeping good government forces in power...
...rgerschaft (city-state parliament) seats for Kaisen's Socialists, a gain of six and a clear majority for the first time. Christian Democrats were held to 18 seats. The election entitled Bürgermeister Kaisen to convert Bremen's coalition government into a wholly Socialist affair, but instead he invited Christian Democrats and Free Democrats, their right-wing cousins, to go right on helping him run Bremen...
...York Giants won in 1921 after losing the first two games but the series was then a nine-game affair...
...Light. In 1947, CBS television carried the Harvest Moon affair. NBC's Worthington Miner, then a CBS executive, watched the show and decided that Ed "seemed relaxed and likable with none of the brashness of a hardened performer." This was just the kind of man CBS wanted as M.C. of a projected Sunday-night variety show. When Toast of the Town went on TV, Ed was so petrified with stage fright that he aroused a strongly maternal feeling in his audience. One fan wrote: "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver...