Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tempore observations when taken out of context might well lead to misunderstanding." The Foreign Office was speaking for itself, it insisted, and not Churchill. The only living member of the Big Three seemed fairly unperturbed when he rose in the House of Commons to discuss the affair. But, said he, we do "not accept responsibility for the accuracy of the American version. The extracts . . . disclose some serious mistakes...
...B.S.O. Like many other features of Boston and the University, however, the Sanders concerts are Tradition. "After all," one Symphony official has said, "the B.S.O. and Harvard are two of the oldest organizations around here." Over the years the Sanders subscription list has also become traditional-"a family affair of the Harvard people," as the official described it. Indeed, some local families have occupied the same seats in Sanders through two or three generations...
...explanation. But for last week's, the reason could be found right in the Washington hearing room where Senator J. (for James) William Fulbright was holding his "friendly study" of the stock market. As the days wore on, the tone of the questioning made it clear that the affair was becoming less friendly every minute, with no noticeable increase in studiousness. Senator Fulbright was questioning not only the doings on the stock exchanges, but was using his hearings to investigate business in general. He called for the Defense Department to produce names of the top 100 defense contractors...
This Old House. In Mexico City, 91-year-old Melania Maria Yosset accused 91-year-old Miguel Marine of setting fire to her boudoir in a jealous rage as a climax to the "torrid love affair" they had been carrying...
...production code was broadened to admit the subject - and only 3,000 years or so after Solomon entertained the Queen of Sheba - a Hollywood studio has dared to take up the question of miscegenation. The subject has been filmed before, of course, notably in Pinky, the story of an affair between a white man and a Negro girl; but in White Feather the hero (Robert Wagner) is a white man who actually marries a red-blooded Indian girl. The moviemakers have of course been careful to soften the shock of this dee-double-daring event. The marriage takes place...