Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wharton World." The F.D.R.-Lucy relationship, writes Daniels, was "an affair which almost broke his marriage to Eleanor." So tense did life on N Street become that in 1917 Mrs. Roosevelt put off going to the family's retreat at Campobello Island off the Maine coast, and then "evidently, when she was gone, wrote of her sense of unwantedness." In a return letter from Washington, F.D.R. assured her: "You were a goosy girl to think or even pretend to think that I don't want you here all the summer, because you know I do! But, honestly...
Panic in Lagos. The coup was a bloody affair. In the Western regional capital of Ibadan, where Ironsi had gone to plead for national unity before a meeting of tribal chiefs and emirs, Northern officers kidnaped him from the governor's palace and ordered him at gunpoint into a military Land Rover; his body was reportedly discovered last week outside a nearby village. At the army barracks at Ikeja, near the Lagos international airport, Northerners shot down every Ibo officer they could find, pursued others through Lagos itself, causing widespread panic in the capital; after one shooting incident, dozens...
...Beatles are a cheeky crew. They constantly muse over the inevitability of what they call "The Downfall"-the end of the public's affair with them. And they always have a chuckle or two over the way all the pussycats lionize them. Beatle John Lennon, in fact, once said: "We sort of half hope for The Downfall-a nice downfall...
...mind," answered the adviser. "Better you than them." The Carronade cut loose, slamming rockets into the attackers, only 200 yds. from the friendly troops. That night confidence was born in the accuracy of naval rocket fire. "We got to the point," says McCoy, "where we became artillery. A love affair developed, and advisers in the outposts told us they couldn't sleep at night unless we were there. It would take six destroyers to replace...
...Rice. In Peking, the Chinese Foreign Ministry fired off angry protests, then in retaliation for the "unjustified and shameful" expulsion of Diplomat Li, ordered Dutch Charge d'Affaires G. J. Jongejans to leave Red China. It was a hollow ouster, for Peking cops promptly took up positions outside the Dutch legation in order to keep Jongejans a prisoner until the welders in The Hague were released. The whole affair, railed the enraged Chinese, had nothing at all to do with kidnaping, but really involved a malicious plot by the CIA and reflected "Dutch government support of the anti-China...