Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shady deals. Last week the fact that there was indeed a lot of loose change floating around -$35,000, to be exact-was confirmed beyond a doubt, to whatever purpose it may have been used. And the Senate Rules Committee, reopening its hearings into the Baker affair, also began pinning down some of that party-girl talk...
...easy for Ruby to shoot Oswald while the U.S. watched on television. Curry suffers from high blood pressure, seldom appears in public now, but his job is considered safe, for if Dallas officials fired him they would be in effect admitting the city's responsibility for the shameful affair...
Other housewives might have taken up bridge, or begun an affair. Mrs. Eiseman turned out pinafores instead, gave them as gifts to children of friends. Husband Laurence (then head of a collection agency) looked at his wife's designs with a sharp, enthusiastic eye, and persuaded Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. to do the same. It was the fussy era in children's fashions, a day that called for ruffles and ribbons and starched puffed sleeves. Mrs. Eiseman preferred simple styles, fine fabrics and an elegance not of ornament but of workmanship. Marshall Field ordered...
...part, were sorry the annual athletic rite could not be a more evenly-matched affair. Perhaps some other time. But we are secure in the knowledge that our guests will be good sports, as they have to be so often about so many things. A Yale man is brought up in the belief that a good follower is as important as a good leader. We can only stand and wonder at how well he plays his role. To each and every Yale man we say, "Stout little fellow. Carry...
...with a monument." Many women have tried to live with the monument who, as the greatest living artist, was bound to make it a monumental task. Françe was his fourth long-term mistress, escaped becoming his second wife. Now, twelve years after the end of the affair, Françoise recollects in tranquillity-something she rarely had with Picasso-with the aid of the Paris art correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor...