Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like your needless needling of Krishna Menon over the Kashmir affair in the U.N. [Feb. 4]. Not that I favor the Indians in the Kashmir question; on the contrary, I think they are wrong. But what apparently you do not realize is that TIME is unnecessarily unfriendly and, sometimes, insulting to India. Use your enormous influence to further good will abroad toward...
...Candide. Voltaire used the Lisbon affair to demolish the fashionable interpretation of the Leibnitz philosophy by which every happening was necessary and therefore good. Candide and Dr. Pangloss had a terrible time in the earthquake, despite their good characters; only a "brutal sailor" did well out of the disaster, happy in the ruins with loot, wine and women. Thus Voltaire derided the notion that those who have bad luck must deserve it. Some men as sensible as Voltaire, and more charitable, recalled what Jesus said on the occasion of a mishap in the Holy Land: "Those eighteen, upon whom...
...Harvard-Brown swimming meet is traditionally a dull affair. The Bruins seldom have much to offer in the way of swimming material, and Coach Ulen generally uses the meet to give his second-liners a chance at a letter...
...certain effect of the recent machinations and charges in the HYRC election race has been to discredit Republicanism in the College. Except for a few who may be caught up with the cops and robbers aspect of the affair or think they may actually gain practical experience in machine-type politics, politically inclined students have doubtless been discouraged from HYRC participation...
...competition is a sprawling affair which winds through eight or nine weeks of the spring term, during which time candidates will pick up the fundamentals of the two boards...