Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picked me up said, angling his head toward the silver glimmer amongst the roadside trees. "Haack sthu!" He dappled the road with a jowlful of juice from his Day's Work chewing tobacco. He had been a psychiatric social worker in Pennsylvania, he told me, consumed by a love affair with the Smoky Mountains, so when he retired he moved south to settle in the hills and woods of western North Carolina. He was a strange one, this pick-up trucker with long white hair and a stringy gray-and-tobacco-brown mustache. When he emoted about his organic garden...
...instead of letting one craftsman toil over each plate, Wedgwood introduced a division of labor for faster production. He also had a way of treating important customers so that, as he says, "they will, by being consulted and flatter'd agreeably, consider themselves as sort of parties in the affair...
...beginning of the Viet Nam affair, America's intervention in that country was halfhearted and was not aimed at achieving any definite and clear-cut goals. Following this initial stage, I believe America should have withdrawn from Viet Nam after the downfall of Sukarno in Indonesia...
...concerned with such local problems as teenage prostitution and guerrilla terror. But they also do occasional excellent non-message films. Actress-Writer-Producer Patra-vadee Sritrairat, 28, a bright and beautiful newcomer, has made a sensitive movie called Games that is the sophisticated story of a triangular bisexual love affair. A splashy sidelight of the industry is movie-poster art. In Bangkok, block-long billboards picturing grotesque snake-entwined monsters hovering over eviscerated women may cost $40,000 and take 36 artists to paint. These gargantuan murals, which used to be thrown away, are suddenly being bought up by European...
...voters defeated a proposed $5.8 billion mass-transit system that would have been financed by a one-cent increase in the local sales tax (TIME, May 24). It was the third time in nine years that Angelenos have decided to snub mass transit and continue their long-standing love affair with the automobile...