Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack on Husan was less a guerrilla raid than a full-scale military operation. Though carried out while Nasser was preoccupied with Suez, and their own government overwhelmingly preponderant on its borders, the Husan affair made many Israelis fearful of the consequences. Said a Jerusalem butcher: "Eight Jewish...
...when Perkins read the manuscript of No More Rivers, he too was outraged to find himself and his Scribner associates pilloried in Wolfe's savage prose. And Wolfe's own turn had come when Aline Bernstein, in Three Bine Suits, gave her version of their love affair. Sounding exactly like one of his own victims, Tom wrote her a note complaining that the book would "get pawed over and whispered about by wretched, verminous little people who want to poke around, pick out identities and gloat over . . . scandalous morsels...
Despite all the discouraging incidents during this second year after the Supreme Court decision, there has been one outstanding event which embodies what we mean by gradualism and moderation: the Montgomery bus boycott. It was a local affair. Local leaders began it, for limited, local goals. It did not even aim at complete integration on busses; it merely sought the right for Negroes to sit in white sections during crowded hours. The NAACP here operated at its best: its local members were acting not as pawns of what appears to many Southerners as a dangerous outside organization, but as respectable...
...Miss Lucy affair at Tuscaloosa, Mississippi's Till murder case, and the Montgomery bus boycott all illustrate the pent-up emotion in the South which comes to the surface periodically. Similarly, the March Declaration of Constitutional Principles issued by 19 Senators and 77 Representatives, all from the South, illustrates the new determination and the new organization of the whites: "we regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as clear abuse of judicial power... This unwarranted exercise of power by the court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the states primarily affected...
...natural resources fare any better when Eisenhower actually came to power. The President stoutly defended all aspects of the Dixon-Yates deal, an affair so disreputable that even Ike-liker John Sherman Cooper opposed it. A complicated issue, the Dixon-Yates proposals included obvious attempts to whittle down TVA and to encircle it with a giant utilities holding company. And the President, not normally prodigal with his immense influence, worked as hard to defeat the Hells Canyon dam as he worked on any other bill in four years...