Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Futile Protest. Even Kremlin propagandists did not make that nonsensical claim. Instead, the Russians clamped a tight censorship on the embarrassing affair, for two days did not print or broadcast one word about the riot all Moscow was talking about. Finally, Izvestia issued a stern warning to the students, told them to "respect Soviet laws" or get out of the country...
...affair by now had about as much charge as morning-after champagne, but Macmillan felt it was his duty to be present. From the front-bench aisle seat that is traditionally reserved for former Prime Ministers, Macmillan finally rose to deliver his last, compellingly honest words on the case that came near to toppling his government last summer. Though gaunt and ashen-faced from his recent illness, 69-year-old Harold Macmillan threw back his shoulders with the kind of dignity under attack that comes instinctively to the Old Guardsman. "Of course," he said, "I was deceived. That must always...
...nightclub stripper, Edie Adams. One day at Rocky's union hiring hall, Angie appears and tells him: "I'm gonna have a baby." He blinks at her, then: "Congratulations." He can't remember the girl's name, and has to strain to recall their brief affair at a resort in the mountains. He agrees to help her "find a doctor." Love comes later, when they get to know each other...
...Venetian Affair, Maclnnes...
...some, this is an agonizing decision, for it challenges long-accepted values. But for others, the decision is perhaps too easy. A native freshman who is shocked by the knowledge that an upperclass friend is sleeping with a boyfriend may, after a year, come to feel that an affair is natural or even desirable. Social pressure may also influence this decision. "Many girls are motivated more by a need to compete with other girls and even with the boys themselves than by a wish for serious emotional relationships," Dr. Carl A. L. Binger, a psychiatrist at the Health Services said...