Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best thing for her country. "In offering her resignation," said the New York Times, "Mrs. Luce has shown a greater degree of good judgment and personal responsibility than was displayed by her chief antagonist in this controversy. The tactics pursued by Senator Morse of Oregon in this whole affair seem to us to have been beneath contempt...
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: The lesson of the entire affair seems plain: when Senators seek to carry out personal vendettas against presidential appointees under the guise of improving the diplomatic service, they take the risk of damaging America's diplomatic service...
...compensation, Stevens concentrates upon Anne's metamorphosis from child to woman, on her love affair with Peter, a young boy confined with the Franks in the garret. While certainly present in the actual diary, these elements were in relatively small proportion...
...mother of Alain Rolland," and no one moved. As Jean Amiel went back to his cell, where he had been reading Milton's Paradise Lost, his wife was escorted out of town by police to protect her from the townspeople. But this was not the end of the affair...
...last week, 1,000 patrons-many of them conventioneering Rotarians-streamed into the theater each night to applaud the delicate Shaw-Campbell exchanges. Some fidgeted at the length: two full hours on a virtually bare stage. But almost everyone enjoyed the unfolding affair by letter, which began in 1899 when Actress Campbell was at the height of her beauty and Playwright Shaw at the beginning of his brilliance, and ended in 1940 when Mrs. Campbell died in bitter poverty and Shaw at 82 plaintively wrote...