Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lame One." Dictator Trujillo & Co. plainly intended to let the suicide report end the affair. But the U.S., as its note last week showed, found the story hard to believe. From inside the Dominican Republic came a report that Pilot De la Maza as well as Pilot Murphy had talked. By De la Maza's story, he and Murphy together had indeed spirited a cancer patient from Miami to Ciudad Trujillo. But the mysterious passenger was not Galindez. It was, instead, one Francisco ("The Lame One") Martinez Jara, urgently wanted then and now by U.S. authorities on suspicion...
...Americans, for the U.S. firing range is about to be completely closed down, and Uchinada's citizens, without handouts, must resign themselves to being once more working fishermen and farmers. Said Mayor Koshige Nakamura moodily: "The leading villagers are well aware that the progressives used this base affair for their own political ends." In Tokyo the often anti-American daily Asahi commented: "In the aftermath of Uchinada are many issues on which all Japanese would do well to ponder calmly...
...first the Crimson played raggedly, but in the last two frames the affair became little more than a passing and shooting drill for the home sextet. The weary visitors even took to resting up in the penalty box, while the 300 fans (some of whom had paid $2 to get in) denounced their misdeeds...
During the affair, Hanover will also be crowded with 2000 Dartmouth dates, 2500 daily visitors, numerous college students invited by Dartmouth friends, and the press...
Kennedy explained, however, that the affair was just a simple case of administrative confusion. He said that back in November, when the Registrar's Office sends out forms to the various courses to determine what type of exams they will be giving, MacLeish had not yet decided whether he would give an open book exam...