Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such is the sorry state of the regular G.O.P. organization that it could not even produce 100 ushers for Vice President Richard Nixon's Philadelphia speech early this month. (The Citizens for Eisenhower finally rounded up the volunteer ushers, picked up the radio and television tab, turned the affair into a success...
...Most Gratifying." Limited as it was, this represented the first important breakthrough in the Suez affair. The diplomats rushed to capitalize on it, and President Eisenhower told his TV campaign "press conference" that "it looks like a very great crisis is behind us." Lloyd and Pineau had booked plane seats for return home, but they postponed their flights. After talking with Dulles, they withdrew their original anti-Egyptian resolution and prepared...
Pieter Van Vlaanderen's relations with his father, his wife and the native girl, far from creating a tight, nooselike knot, never wholly intertwine. Considering the terrible known consequences of such an act, the affair with the girl lacks compulsion; and Pieter's relations with his wife, if clearly blueprinted, are stiltedly conveyed. When, at the end, the father harshly casts out his son and sternly seals up his house, the play comes suddenly to life, with a scene of vibrant theater. But it is still a standing broad jump of a scene, without the running start...
...Foster Dulles at his press conference. Replied Dulles: "My reaction ... is extremely favorable ... I had the feeling that developments in the Suez situation were moving thoughts somewhat in that direction, and, if so, that probably would be a very happy byproduct, indeed, of what otherwise is a rather tragic affair...
Eliot seeks true love with Margaret, a bookish blithe spirit who captures his fancy by giving him a copy of the Goncourts' journals. After a two-year love affair, the pair decide that they are not made for each other, but after Margaret marries another man and has a child, they decide that they are. The steps Eliot takes to break up Margaret's marriage and marry her himself might have struck old Galsworthy as slightly caddish...