Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side and in his speeches ("A Maine boy who is making a name for himself," said Joe). Last month, Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter fired McCarthy's Maine boy as his research assistant after Jones 1) issued an unauthorized statement backing McCarthy in the Army affair and 2) continued to set up his campaign against Mrs. Smith. Last week Jones insisted that he is not a McCarthy candidate at all. But he took pains to classify Mrs. Smith as a "left-winger" and Senator McCarthy as "a great patriot...
...Personal Affair (Rank; United Artists) is a British attempt to say "Boo!" without losing dignity. A student (Glynis Johns) at an English school for young ladies has a crush on one of her teachers (Leo Genn). The teacher's wife (Gene Tierney) senses the truth, imagines a lot more, and warns the girl off. That night the girl disappears without a trace. Is she dead? If so, by her own hand or another's? Suspicion falls on the teacher, who admits that he was the last to see her. His marriage begins to come apart, the girl...
...killed. Unlike other traditional functions it is born anew each year, with the Student Council as a watchful midwife. If the Council were to abolish the Smoker the class of 1958 would never miss what it never knew about. The Smoker has never fulfilled its questionable function, and the affair Tuesday night hinted forcibly the great harm that can result...
...Smoker Committee worked very hard on the affair, everyone had a good time in Sanders, and "it was too bad that the two events had to mar an otherwise perfect evening," said Patrick...
Poet Gittings suggests that it was Keats's faculty for translating into poetry all the stormy feelings of a trying period. Within this time his brother died of tuberculosis, and Keats began his painfully soul-searching love affair with Fanny Brawne, the girl who lived next door in Hampstead...