Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the word got to Pittsburgh, President Philip Murray of the C.I.O. steelworkers first calmly finished his lunch, then pushed back his chair and issued an order. Now that this was again an affair between management and union, Murray could see only one course: strike...
...Administration's decision the Committee has chosen Lowell and Winthrop Houses for the affair if the weather is inclement. Both dining halls and common rooms will be used, and the two Houses will be connected by a canopy stretching over Mill Street...
...week wore on, the pantie raid-originally a noisy but generally good-natured affair-seemed to get rougher and more destructive. At the University of Washington the raiding mob broke windows at a sorority house to get in. When University of Missouri students raided nearby Stephens and Christian Colleges, the girls fought back with Coke bottles, mops and plumber's helpers. The male rioters broke windows, doors and screens, damaged furniture, threw eggs and potatoes and stole silverware, cigarette lighters and lamp shades...
...incredible story of chaos and bloodshed in the U.N.'s prison stockades, of almost complete lack of U.N. control, continued to emerge last week. On top of the disgraceful Dodd-Colson affair came new light on prisoner cabals that scorned interference by U.N. guards. Worst of all, observers were beginning to realize that the prisoner vote on repatriation, which at first had seemed the only creditable and politically valuable aspect of the whole affair, had not been arrived at by the U.N. in a true and careful polling, but was in some-cases a rough & ready guess...
...following fall was enlivened by Boston power failure, which sent about students on a river to Radcliffe blackout blast. Leverett men rumored that the world was coming to an end, partly in jest and partly as consolation to friends who had lost Bursar's cards in the Sunday night affair...