Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of my countrymen, blush scarlet with shame at the love affair now going on in the East between Mr. Attlee and the Chinese Communists. While we in Britain deplore the extremes of McCarthyism, millions of us are nauseated by the way certain members of the Labor Party play "footsie" with the Reds. Mr. Attlee, an ex-soldier, should know better, or at least have some vestige of pride in his country . . . I can only hope that as these ambling dreamers wander around the Orient as guests of the Reds . . . the British dead in Korea...
...estimated $10 million by putting his hand to all sorts of ventures (hotels, race tracks, theaters, etc.) in the Pacific Northwest. Like her father, Jeanette seems to have a clear knack for getting whatever she goes after. Rockefeller's friends immediately coined a private joke about the affair. "This time," they told each other with a wink, "he's going to marry for money...
London's Daily Express predicted that the highlight of Princess Margaret's 24th-birthday party, an intimate royal affair at Balmoral Castle, would be an announcement of her engagement to the Honorable Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 27, heir to a barony and a multimillion-dollar chemical fortune. With gossipists all agog, the Express's guess proved a total fizzle. Arriving at Balmoral, young...
...funeral. But the Roman Catholic Church denied her its rites. At 81, Novelist Colette-whose books were far from other-worldly-had been twice divorced, was long out of communion with the church. Last week, in the weekly Figaro Littéraire, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene, a Roman Catholic convert, took Paris' Cardinal Archbishop Feltin to task for his decision. Wrote Greene...
...British Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee's arrival in Peking (see below), Chou dismissed Attlee's suggestion that Formosa be placed under U.N. trusteeship. "Taiwan is inviolable Chinese territory," Chou declared. "Its liberation . . . is an exercise of China's sovereignty and China's own internal affair." The Red Premier accused the U.S. of occupying Red Chinese territory by sending arms and instructors to help Formosa defend itself. "This increases the danger...