Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peggy Affair...
...number of local girls attended the affair, and as Eze describes it. "One of them drank so much that she went into the ladies' room and went to sleep right there. The others forgot about her until much later when they returned to the Hall about two o'clock yelling for 'Peggy! Peggy!" Eze and his friends still call the party the "Peggy" affair...
...presidential news conference had been televised, and it would not be the last. Press Secretary Hagerty announced that the innovation would become routine, although he did not promise that the film would always be released. For some old hands in the press corps who objected that television made the affair a production instead of a news conference, Hagerty had a brief answer: "We are in the 20th century - the second part." President Eisenhower had expressed the hope that the cameras would not be a "disturbing influence." and they did not seem to be. The occasion contributed as much...
...children's minds, Henri Dubois, 37, mathematics teacher at the Technical College for Boys in the French city of Albi, is a famous man. All through the French Pyrenees his name can start bitter argument: he is an unfrocked Roman Catholic priest, excommunicated for heresy. No religious affair for a long time has stirred up Frenchmen as much as the case of Henri Dubois...
Leviticus Says No. He tells the story, wittily and well, by putting the problem of ethics on a kind of analyst's couch and dredging up its troubled case history. The childhood of ethics, in the Russell view, is taboo. Taboo morality is a strict black-and-white affair filled with dread and sanctions, the ethics of primitive...