Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took some time to get the misunderstanding straightened out, and the affair ruffled the Vice President-elect's usual good humor. Humphed he: "No. 1, it was a rental. No. 2, he just lost a good customer. No. 3, I'll even quit renting from him if the man can't keep his mouth shut. I've rented from Sam Scogna five or eight years. So have my sons. So has my staff. I've sent him a lot of business over the years, and he's just lost...
...composer claimed that it is already possible to write something that would be recognizable as jazz but which would be suitable for a symphony orchestra. He hastened to point out, however, that the fusion of jazz and classical music into a "third stream" must not be a haphazard affair...
...only a man named Baker but the operation and philosophy of government." The committee uncovered many of Baker's financial shenanigans outside the Congress. Yet it ignored the problem of the misuse of his influence within the Congress. The charges of Ralph Hill whose suit initiated the Baker affair were clarified. It was learned how Baker's vending machine company Serv-U had grown in two years into a $3.5-million business with contracts with several aero-space firms. The committee also looked into Baker's financial dealings with Fred Black, a lobbyist for North American Aviation, a corporation...
...study the charge by Senator Williams (R-Del.) that builder Matthew McCloskey, a former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, made an illegal $25,000 campaign contribution in 1960 through Baker. It adjourned after five days of hearings began again. But Chairman Jordan has limited testimony to the McCloskey affair. He has refused once again to probe directly Baker's dealings with Senators...
Regrettably, substance is frequently sacrificed to surface. Like Eliza crossing the ice floes, the compulsive witticist in Mrs. Kerr reflects a mind too busy to stop and sink. But unlike lesser jokesmiths, Jean Kerr can always be trusted to produce the wit that is instant wisdom, as in "The affair you don't get over is the one you never...