Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wings drooping, rolled into its parking area, and the pilot cut its whining engines. When the crew climbed out, the base commander was on hand to greet them, but only to commiserate. An incomplete mission is a sad affair with the new Air Force. The pilot had executed the neatest feat of the day-a perfect instrument landing, but this meant only that the crew would have to go back up next day to complete the training it had missed...
...Nahas, Wafd Premier, once got a certain Madame de Buisson with child, whereupon her humiliated husband killed himself. On another occasion the Wafd party-largely composed of poor peasants-paid ?6,000 to a Polish newswoman to get her to leave the country after she had had an affair with Nahas...
Lucrezia's official duties were so taxing, in fact, that she never had too much of a social life. Beyond her husbands, she had only two known lovers - well under par for her time and station. Both affairs ended badly. One lover, a papal messenger named Perotto, was put to the sword by brother Cesare in the Pope's throne room. The second, Lucrezia's brother-in-law,contracted syphilis in another affair and went off to live in seclusion...
Hana-ogi is the lead dancer in an all-girl troupe governed by austere rules of conduct. But Lloyd and Hana-ogi break all the rules and become lovers. The affair that results is an obstacle race with tragedy. Social pressures bedevil the pair; so do officers' wives, Army regulations and Lloyd's father ("Y'can't send half-Jap boys to the Point"). Finally, Hana-ogi is sent to another dancing post and Lloyd is railroaded back to the U.S. and his pre-fling fiancée, a general's daughter...
...leave from his job as Turkish Ambassador to Egypt, Diplomat Tugay learned that Egypt's new revolutionary government had decided to confiscate the property of all blood relatives of the deposed King Farouk. Under normal circumstances, no foreign emissary would concern himself with such a purely domestic affair, but it happens that Tugay's wealthy wife Emine, whose holdings included a palace in Cairo, many acres of rich Egyptian land and a bankful of Egyptian pounds, is Farouk's cousin. Ambassador Tugay complained publicly that Egypt's highhanded action was illegal. The Egyptian government countered...