Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President" & "Bob." There are signs that the working relationship may broaden to the social and personal fields. The only Washington social affair Dwight Eisenhower has attended this year outside the call of duty was a tea given by the Tafts in honor of Mamie Eisenhower...
...child, Richard ("Angel") Williams found life in Philadelphia a bleak affair. Angel's father deserted his family when the boy was a baby. His mother developed tuberculosis. The boy was shipped from one institution to another, and after stealing a car, ended up in the reformatory. When Angel was turned loose last year, at 17, he energetically set out to make a name for himself...
Tonight the '56ers hold their formal dance at the Union. Two orchestras will provide continuous music for the major affair of the Jubilee...
...President answered mildly and clearly a storm of provocative questions about the McCarthy affair (see below...
...alarm through every Middlesex village and farm" between Charlestown and Lexington, William Dawes was rousing the sleepy colonists between Boston and Concord. In recent American history, the Dawes name has been hitched to three things-a pipe, a plan and a peppery phrase. The pipe was a low, underslung affair that traveled the smoke along a 15-inch channel, the plan was a reparations agreement that helped put Germany on its feet in 1924-1929, and the phrase was "Hell and Maria...