Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unbearable torture in the days following the night he finds Miss Olsen, the town tobacco-shop girl, staggering dead drunk through the streets. Despite Vidgren's initial revulsion at the girl and her unsavory reputation, the two quickly become bosom companions, as Vidgren tastes the joy of his first affair...
...driven to drink by the swinish brutality of a man who Vidgren learns too late is none other than the school's "pet sadist," Caligula, who in turn is tormented by an epic inferiority complex, which brings out the classical beast in him. The tragic ending of the affair severs Vidgren's educational umbilical cord and sends him out into the invigorating world alone, happy to be free...
...Casement affair, one of the century's most sensational treason cases, has now been reconstructed in a fascinating biography by British Journalist Rene MacColl, who tells the story of a brilliant, unsavory and enigmatic would-be hero...
Held simultaneously in the Statler and Somerset hotels, the affair included cocktails, closed circuit television, and a collection of big-givers who are expected to contribute heavily to the $11,100,000 quota set for the Boston area...
Like a receding thunderstorm, the echoes of the Zhukov affair grew fainter and fainter. No one seemed to be in any hurry to find a job for Russia's greatest living soldier, and by week's end Pravda was devoting only half a page to denunciations of the marshal's sins. Four and a half years after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stood alone and unchallenged...