Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wears her hair in a severe hairdo and is often seen in a dark suit with white blouse and necktie. But last November she appeared at a big party affair in a slashing evening dress, danced with party bigwigs until 2 a.m. Moscow scuttlebutt says Ekaterina is now a sports car buff, drives a speedy ZIS 112. She is also said to be married to the Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia and to have two children, but in Russia, where no such private details are ever recorded in the public press, neither fact is readily verifiable...
...Shocked" by the use of the text in a College course, Fordrung said that he is "disturbed by the immense evil being done by the promulgation of the false doctrine contained in this book." Rev. Fletcher immediately accepted his challenge to debate the volume, insisting only that "the affair doesn't degenerate into a name-calling contest." Fordrung, a member of the New York Bar for four decades, agreed...
...Affair. In Fresno, Calif., Paul Samuel Haney was sentenced to a year in prison for forging checks on his wife's bank account so that he could buy wedding and engagement rings for his girl friend...
...addition to its general "un-Harvard" beer-slinging atmosphere, the annual event has lost the Class money. This year, not only was one freshman knocked unconscious after "slipping on some spilled beer," but the affair lost $250, of which one hundred was lent to the Smoker Committee by the Student Council...
Deep down at the bottom of its civic heart, Cambridge is truly benevolent. The city exhibits a praiseworthy concern for the spiritual well-being of the Harvard student in its plans for renewing that long lost College institution--the red-blooded, alcohol supported, riot. Of course the entire affair is being planned under the guise of a mass Civil Defense evacuation. But anyone can see through that pretense...