Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside, in the streets of Paris, the affair did not end so smoothly. At week's end, bands of right-wing students, veterans, followers of General de Gaulle and monarchists began parading and shouting, "Vive Juin!" Laniel and Pleven went to a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe for the fallen soldiers of Dienbienphu...
Last week, on the request of retiring President Lee, the trustees named a special committee to investigate the whole Beaty affair. But John Beaty was carrying on as usual. From his pen came another pamphlet, plaintively crying that the label "antiSemitic" was nothing but a smear aimed at people who are genuine antiCommunists. It certainly was not a tag that could possibly apply to good old John Beaty. "I have no feelings except feelings of friendship," said he, "for pro-American Jews...
Though many a Dutch editor considered the agreement "shameful," they all seemed to agree with Editor Rooy that the whole affair was a "technical matter," not concerning the public. Not a line about the dispute was printed in any of Holland's 78 newspapers...
...Within a ten-page stretch. Peter meets and rebuffs his first American prostitute, goes inside his first American church (a Roman Catholic cathedral), sees his first prizefight and enters his first speakeasy. Seething with ambition, he decides that love is off-limits and only strays once, into a brief affair with his plump landlady...
...affair of Roy Cohn vs. the United States Army first began to assume the aspects of a farce when it was announced that McCarthy's committee, temporarily headed by Senator Mundt, would investigate its chairman. But Mundt assured the nation that justice would be carried out, that the committee would hire a counsel who had a proven record of impartiality, and who had never before taken part in a major government investigation. Senator Mundt played his hand carefully. Instead of starting the investigation immediately, when public opinion was strongly in favor of the Army, he waited two weeks...