Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops through the streets of Hanoi. Tank-led paratroopers, Foreign Legionnaires, red-capped Senegalese and elite Vietnamese outfits marched smartly past General René Cogny, while 15 French paratroopers jumped spectacularly from a low-flying C-47 into a lake in the center of town. It was a brave affair, perhaps the biggest military display the French had staged in their 70 years in Hanoi; yet its flamboyance could not obscure the drab reality: Hanoi (pop. 600,000) was doomed...
...there will be placed before the public this fall a record of accomplishment of which any Congress, any Administration, could be proud. Particularly the farm bill that passed in the House and the tax bill in the Senate, made my weekend, at least, a very, very much more pleasant affair." Ike admitted candidly that his program had not been entirely successful; there had been some disappointments. "I would be just guilty of misrepresentation if I just said all the world is rosy, and all the roses are gilded. But if we [have] had a straightforward, across-the-board progress that...
...encountered saints and their works. Though raised a Roman Catholic, she knew little about them and began to read more and more until, she says, "like everyone else who reads about the saints, I fell madly in love with them." The result of Phyllis McGinley's love affair was a series of deft verses on some of the saints (see opposite page}, which she titled "Saints Without Tears" and assembled as a section in her forthcoming book, The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley (Viking). Poet McGinley is happily boning up on more of the saints, hopes eventually...
...season. The 49 paintings ranged from the Blue Period Harlequin and His Companion (1900) to cubist arrangements, such as Violin and Glass (1913), and included some of the finest works of the young Picasso. But last week, after the show had attracted capacity crowds since its opening, the whole affair was abruptly called...
...kroner off to the national bank for a check of the serial numbers. Back came word that this series was put into circulation in March 1954. At that time, Sunde was already in jail. Now it was the prosecutor's turn to laugh. As he reconstructed the affair, the Soviet embassy, anxious to help Comrade Sunde, had taken the passports and police cards he had given the Russian agent, had stuffed them into an envelope with the money, planted the lot in Sunde's flat, and then sent him word of what they had done. But the comrades...