Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford is not a dynamic President. He is sound, solid and steady-a known quantity. If his caution prevents him from providing exciting leadership, it also minimizes the risks. His composure is unlikely to crack under the strain of crisis. Ford was notably relaxed while handling the celebrated Mayaguez affair. "We've got a little crisis," he said casually to some visitors in the Oval Office. "I don't know why it is, but these crises always seem to occur on Monday...
Even though University Police Chief David Gorski said that Hammer's flair made it more difficult to safeguard the painting, Gorski acknowledge yesterday that the affair was all Hammer's, and he wasn't about to quarrel with a gift horse
...disappointing Red Sox close out the season with a series against the second-place Baltimore Orioles. The Sox have only the .500 mark to shoot for against the visitors, in a series that promised to be a pennant-deciding affair a few months...
...trip to Florida gives him a second life, as evidenced in his little dance of anticipation in the umpteenth motel room of the week. But Florida is more of the same--agonizingly long sales sessions with reluctant customers that resemble the attempts of a spurned lover to keep an affair going which is now dead...
...Providence was declared the winner, but nobody really decided anything about the Harvard-UMass affair. "I think that we would have won," McCurdy said, before admitting that the UMass coach no doubt has the same opinion about the Minutemen...