Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smallpox vaccination is a painless, one-shot affair. Nonetheless, it is necessary, since those who cannot produce a certificate vouching for their vaccination will find it difficult to persuade U.S. officials to allow them to re-enter the country...
...ruled supreme on the harsh and inhospitable Tangeorkheh Desert in southeastern Iran, looting, pillaging, murdering and conducting a brisk trade in girls in the slave markets of the Persian Gulf. But though the bandit chief rates as Iran's Public Enemy No. 1, his business, a strictly domestic affair, has gone largely unhampered by the Shah's gendarmery. Last week banditry on Dadshah's desert became an international concern, and the Shah himself ordered the gendarmes out to catch the culprits, try them on the spot and shoot them dead if found guilty...
Brother Marcel, at 69 still spry, witty and eager to shock, would put it a little differently. On his way to Houston last week, where he will lecture the convention on "The Creative Act," he proclaimed: "Painting today is a Wall Street affair. When you make a business out of being a revolutionary, what are you? A crook. As Brancusi used to say, 'Art is a swindle...
...forward to $35,844,479. Later in the week Barr and his management team showed one of the reasons why. In Portsmouth, Ohio, they snipped the ribbons on Ward's first new retail store in the U.S. since 1941. It is a modern, $1,500,000, four-story affair, alive with the new-fangled customer conveniences alien to Ward's old-fashioned approach of yesteryear-Muzak, air conditioning, gleaming counter displays...
...wears his scholarship as loosely as a toga, and occasionally carries colloquialism to the point of topical slanginess ("Imagine her fitted by Dior!"). Ovid, Humphries argues, would have done the same. In a faintly disguised account of his own liaisons about town (The Loves), Ovid sees a love affair in two lights-either as sunlit sensuality or as a kind of mock-heroic comedy...