Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dlimi. Witnesses named them as the Moroccans who had met Ben Barka at the villa. King Hassan flatly refused to hand them over for trial. In fact, he had been working feverishly behind the scenes to block the proceedings. Emissaries had approached Charles de Gaulle himself, pleading that the affair would put a blight on Franco-Moroccan relations. Hassan argued in vain, for De Gaulle declined to intervene...
...touch-and-go affair. Winter nearly kills him. His feet become like "stewed bags of plums." When he takes off his newspaper underwear in the spring, the skin comes away with the paper. Yet he has survived, "always knowing that war is not forever and that we live by growing things." Surviving with him are a few sempervivums, or everlivings-among them the European houseleek, sometimes known as "hen and chickens"-a proper plant for this chickenhearted man. Another surviving plant is the Sempervivum melintese, thought extinct for a hundred years and now, like the hero, "resurrected in captivity...
...Five-Way Affair...
...battle for first place will be a five-way affair among Hardin of Harvard, Geisel and Andreini of Princeton, and Bittner and Shorter of Yale. Hardin must take either first or second for the Crimson to have a chance to win the meet. The undefeated sophomore will be facing his roughest competition of the year, but he has been pointing toward this one all season...
...play called The Fainted Horse would have much of a box-office draw, but if the box office is in Paris and the playwright is Franchise Sagan, the title can be forgiven. The play, in fact, is Paris' biggest hit, and has precipitated a brand-new love affair between France and the eternally precocious Sagan...