Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Hungarian Party Boss Janos Kadar was apparently too embarrassed by the Catered Affair to reveal these details, he did bring formal charges against Onodi (whose brother-in-law is Justice Minister Ferenc Nezval). Onodi and ten cronies will go on trial later this month for having "caused damage to the economy amounting to 400,000 forints ($17,500)." No one explained just who or what had been damaged, but it seemed clear that, as one Budapest daily dejectedly commented, "the time for urimuri (gentleman's fun) is over...
...using both, Pookie is whimsical about it. Her most whimsical proposition is that she and Jerry make out in the phone booth while calling her minister back home in Indiana for his opinion on premarital relations. Jerry is not ready for such advanced technique, and their puppy-love affair soon becomes more depressive than manic, finally and affectingly (like the novel) whimpers...
...resourceful display of in-bed infighting. The sight gags are eruptively funny and the dialogue blends the flip quip with the rueful truth, as when Pat says to Peter apropos of his mistress: "Just think, if you had married her ten years ago, today you could be having an affair with...
...pressure was steeply stepped up by the arrival in Ireland of Esther Vanhomrigh, a young woman Swift had known in London. After eight years of harrowing tension-it seems clear that the affair was never consummated-Swift apparently chose Hester instead of Esther. A few weeks later, at the age of 33, Esther died...
Cambridge Traffic Director Robert E. Rudolph took another beating from the City Council last Monday, but he should be getting used to them by now. They're getting to be almost a weekly affair...