Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's decision to arm our NATO allies with IRBMissiles seems another hasty jump out of the frying pan into the fire. England and France have demonstrated in the Suez affair how sorely our allies may be tempted to take impulsive, independent action. Our eagerness to bolster the pride and might of our allies should not cause us to forget that the first atomic-armed missile fired by any NATO finger will shoot the U.S. into an all-out nuclear...
...Believed that the conference was bound to be a cut-and-dried affair, because U.S. planning did not reach beyond military matters into the economic and political possibilities...
This morning the unfortunate Lampoon candidate who slugged the Lampoon's Santa Claus will be arraigned before the Cambridge Court. There is no question but that the case should be dismissed. Presumably the charge will be disturbing the peace; the Square is so untranquil at best that a silly affair like this was a ripple on the seething surface. Once the Lampoon has reimbursed the poor bystander whose glasses were demolished, the case should be dropped...
With A Novel Affair, two long shorts are played off against one another--one displaying the considerable versatility of the British air industry, and the other, Pablo Casals. Impressive as the needle-nosed bursts of speed are, Casals is part of a better world...
What gives Look Homeward, Angel a vitality laced with truth is how much the Gants seem an actual family, at once riveted and riven-far more than Eugene's romance with a boarder (Frances Hyland) seems an authentic love affair. The long-borne inner tensions snap when at last Eugene turns on his mother-hair-raisingly in Anthony Perkins' performance-for the way she has used and fettered her children...