Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare, this element of force, but an AROTC directive proves that it is not inconceivable. By regulations, all ROTC units must set up an officers club affair which presents several dances a year. The AROTC added a unique feature to this by more or less compelling membership, something not required by regulations or practised by other local units...
Sabbath concerns the changing love between boy and girl in terms of an obsession with dogs. C. C. Humpstone fails to make the love affair or the obsession at all interesting. Yet he sometimes builds up an effect in descriptive passages, and his prose is generally light...
...weather will determine whether the sleigh ride turns into a hay ride or a record dance. But whatever the affair, it will be preceded by dinner for couples and succeeded by marshmallows and cider back at the dorm...
Plymouth Adventure, based on an imaginative, fictional account of the Mayflower voyage, tacks on to history an affair between Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney) and the skipper. But the movie dehydrates the romance into one embrace, and then forces Mrs. Bradford into a quick suicide. Besides this, the screenplay only diverges from the accepted in its characterization of the captain, a figure not discussed in any of the records...
...Staff members of the University of Illinois must have nothing more to do with the mysterious horse-serum drug Krebiozen (TIME, April 9, 1951), ruled President George D. Stoddard, because "the Krebiozen affair has been damaging to our scientific reputation." Staffer chiefly affected: Vice President Andrew Ivy, who insisted on giving the secret cancer serum a full trial...