Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will inaugurate a television network designed to reach-and help unify-close to half of the country's 15 million people. As the AID men see it, they are fighting "43 separate battles against the Viet Cong"-one in every province-and each is a touch-and-go affair. For the man behind the water buffalo, security is all; his allegiance belongs to whichever side can give...
...raucous affair. As a matter of fact, the residents carried out a little demolition plan of their own--they destroyed the mock-up of the project the BRA had brought to the hearing...
...Party. As such, he was almost certain to become Prime Minister when Gladstone, then almost 76, stepped down. But before the fateful day was over, Dilke had a disastrous fall that smashed his career and arguably altered the course of British political history. The Dilke Case was the Profumo Affair of the Victorian...
With nothing left but cash and courage, Dilke grimly continued the fight. During the next decade a committee established to investigate the case produced evidence which strongly suggests that Mrs. Crawford's story was a lie from beginning to end. In fact, says Jenkins, Mrs. Crawford had an affair with a certain Captain Forster, from whom she had contracted syphilis. Unable to continue her marriage without disclosing her condition, Mrs. Crawford cynically decided to get both Dilke and a divorce in one fell swoop...
Fatal Split. Why did she want to destroy Dilke? Author Jenkins argues that despite his protestation of utter innocence, Dilke actually did have an affair with Mrs. Crawford before she was married; that Dilke refused to marry her; that she ruined him because he had "ruined" her. But nobody knows for certain. What is certain, or seems so on the evidence Jenkins supplies, is that Dilke was the only man who could hold the Liberals together. Within a year of his political demise the party split, and Gladstone's last administration foundered in failed majorities. One woman...