Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That afternoon six members of his State Department office staff came over bearing gifts and chitchat. The day's final birthday party came when wife Janet arrived with an armful of presents to head up a quiet family affair...
What Is a Farm? The Smouha affair, or the Smouhaha, as London wags inevitably called it, arose over the fanciest deal struck in a lifetime of shrewd dealing (cotton, moneylending, land speculating) by one Joseph Smouha, longtime operator in the Persian Gulf, Lancashire and the Levant, and known as the richest British subject in Egypt. This was his acquisition of 700 swampy acres on Alexandria's outskirts. He got Farouk's father, Fuad I, to proclaim it "Smouha City" and, while holding about half as low-tax "farm land" for future speculative profit, turned the other half into...
...emptiness really lies at the core of Willard's character. When he finds that he is in love with Stephanie, he avoids the responsibility that love requires by taking refuge in jealousy and smashing the affair. In the end he tries to murder the man with whom he suspects Stephanie of cheating, but it is an innocent boy who becomes the victim of his senseless attack. The trouble is that Author Grossman's hero is more ridiculous than his victims, and the social vices he flays seem almost attractive compared to the empty reaches of his own sick...
Realists point out that one reason why Ecuador moved ahead so fast was that it had far to go. Per capita income, though it almost doubled in a decade, is still only $164 a year. Too much business and industry is run as an old family affair, grossly inefficient, protected by high tariffs. Yet Galo and his successors down to Conservative President Ponce Enriquez have brought hope for the future and, above all, freedom. Almost daily one paper or another roasts Ponce for "fraud, deceit and treason." The President ignores them all. "Neither calumny nor insult disturbs me," he says...
...most of her songs are in French, Piaf prefaces them with a dry, straightforward English precis ("She meets her lover; he goes away; she weeps"). But the translation is seldom necessary. Her hands and face and powerful voice are obviously telling of a woman scorned, a lover lost, an affair broken...