Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwight Eisenhower, Stassen's challenge to Nixon was apparently less disturbing than to his Janizariat. At his press conference last week, when the first question shot at him raised the Stassen issue, Ike was unruffled and ready with his thinking about the affair. His central point: the second man on the ticket, like the presidential candidate himself, must be chosen by the delegates at open convention and not by Eisenhower fiat. Until then, everyone has the right to express his preferences as he chooses...
...Family Affair. Two years ago Zik became the Eastern Region's first Premier. Still simmering over an old experience in a British bank in Nigeria ("Not only did the manager keep me standing in his office for some minutes, but he was curt and condescending"), Zik used his new power to transfer $5,600,000 in government funds into a hitherto modest native bank, the African Continental. The catch was that the African Continental Bank had been founded by Zik himself, and, although he had resigned as a director upon becoming Premier, he and an organization called Zik Enterprises...
...their fighters, the show started long before the bout. Ringside sportswriters were asked to turn out in formal clothes, and many of them went along with the gag. The aisles were thick with red carpeting, as if Governor General Vincent Massey himself was about to grace some extraordinary state affair. But when the houselights darkened and spotlights shone on the home-team dugout, the only notable to appear was James J. Parker, proud in a blue silk robe trimmed with white. He marched to the ring, wary-eyed and handsome, protected, for the time being, by his seconds and five...
...that by rare coincidence "Nasser also would be traveling in Yugoslavia." And from the moment that Tito, resplendent in a panama white linen suit, white shoes and black pocket handkerchief, greeted him on Brioni's quay, Nehru was clearly determined to let the wind out of the whole affair. At the end of the first five-hour session, with Tito and Nasser standing sheepishly silent, Nehru wearily chided the 120 newsmen who had assembled to cover neutralism's shining hour. "It is really extraordinary," said he, "that we cannot meet in a friendly way without you gentlemen attaching...
...Summer of Happiness is the story of a summer love affair. But unlike most such romances, which are merely animal exercises, this one involves deeper feelings and broader meanings. Goren Stendal, a college student, goes to spend the summer on his uncle's farm among the "simple folk." Here he meets and falls in love with the young Kirsten, not sweeping her off her feet, but on the contrary attracting her most strongly when he displays the least urbanity...