Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monarchist Lauro, who rushed back from his favorite spa of Fiuggi, labeled the whole affair a "political maneuver" by the Christian Democratic government to cut into his political strength in southern Italy. He accused the government of "throwing mud at the fair city of Naples," scoffed at the possibility of a "few missing millions," and cried: "Rome is trying to make an assault landing in the territorial waters of Naples." Said a Lauro aide: "Every real Neapolitan can only admire the way we operate...
When Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, appealed to Britain for help in subduing the rebellious and elusive Imam of Oman, no one thought that the affair would require much more than a few passes by R.A.F. fighter planes to scare the rebels into pledging loyalty to the red flag of the Sultan. In the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was the very model of long-distance assurance. "It would be an example of military futility," he intoned, "to seek to employ ground forces in those temperatures in desert areas...
...sister-in-law Pia (Magali Noël), a sensuous charmer with a body like molded quicksand. Angelo is not thinking of farm labors when he eyes the ladies tauntingly and husks: "You don't have a man?" Perceiving that this will doubtless blossom into an intimate family affair, he also assures them: "How could I love one of you more than another?" His first objective is the widow Agatha, and she is more than willing. Naturally, Pia grows annoyed, so Angelo appeases her by enrolling her in his quaint little harem. Next: the girl Sylvia. The three raging...
Crisis of Hate. At this crisis point, Robert falls in with his religious neighbors, the Gornacs. Widowed Elisabeth Gornac emerges from a cocoon of pale respectability to mother Robert and even to further his love affair with Paula. Her grown son, Pierre, a devout Roman Catholic of a gloomy Jansenite cast, hates all that Robert stands for. Though he is pietistically given to "searching his heart, calling God to witness," and laboriously examining his motives, he nonetheless tattles to Paula about Robert's past...
...escaped by "forming a coterie of informal favorites, to whom she gave rich rewards and positions and with whom she danced, sported and gossiped, openly mocking the established grandees of Versailles. With young Axel Fersen, officer son of a Swedish general, she began an ardent love affair that lasted with mutual devotion to her dying day. Few details of their intimacy have survived, but of the truth of the romance, for a long time disputed, Castelot leaves no doubt...