Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was some ugliness at the first affair. Some motorcycle clubbers hopped on their machines and began doing wheelies up Beacon St. The hordes followed. They loved it. Everyone chugged up the Hill to the State House, and about 100 people stood on the steps yelling, "We want...
...this era, the expansion of Communism is a far more complicated affair than it was in the late 1940s. To take the two most notable examples of late, both Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro gained their power as effective opponents of oppressive, reactionary regimes before they set up popular Communist dictatorships. There is little doubt, of course, that they are far less resented by their subjects than were French General Henri Navarre and Fulgencio Batista...
Negro leaders tended toward restraint. Some of the extreme militants, who actively oppose interracial romance, nattered a bit. Many others, such as Martin Luther King, preferred to view the match as a personal affair. "Individuals marry," said King, "not races." The Rev. James Woodruff of St. Anselm's Episcopal Chapel in Nashville, Tenn., observed: "Most people were surprised. They feel she was a pretty lucky girl to get such a promising young man. I feel that way too." At the A. Philip Randolph Institute in New York City, headquarters of the intellectual Bayard Rustin, the comment for publication...
...isolation was brutal. Stalin sur rounded his "little housekeeper" with NKVD agents and made her a prisoner shifted between Kremlin and countryside. The description of her first love affair at 17 becomes an episode in the life of a girl who for the first time since her mother's death feels the pull of approval by another human being. The man was a 40-year-old film director, Alexei Kapler. When Stalin had the whole story-telephone transcriptions, letters, trysts-he ordered Kapler arrested as a British spy, had him sentenced to ten years of exile and prison...
...always a grim affair when politicians use scare tactics to lobby for their pet innovations in national security. It is worse when the Administration gives in to them...