Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restoration, and last week it was formally dedicated as a historical monument. Boy Scouts directed traffic while an honor guard from nearby Andrews Air Force Base presented colors. Said Restoration Committee Chairman Thomas S. Gwynn Jr. to the 700 onlookers, including 30-odd Surratt descendants who attended the affair: "To remove this blot, this blemish, this cloud from the name of one of our local residents, is why we are here today...
...whole affair had political overtones. Not only is Jackson seeking the presidential nomination, but his campaign manager in Michigan is Frank Kelley, the state's attorney general, who may be running for the Senate next year. To the Detroit News, the whole affair seemed very peculiar indeed. Declared an editorial: "When Kelley and Jackson tell us they see nothing political about all this, we wince in embarrassment for them. The only question is: How far will they go? Will they, for example, insist on being photographed beside the body, if it's found, like big-game hunters beside...
Judging from past sessions, nobody expected the meeting in Vienna last week of the ministers of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to be a quiet affair. But few foresaw what by week's end had become a dramatic and bitter tug of war between the cartel's two major producing nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran. After four days of fierce wrangling, the members compromised Saturday on a hike in world oil prices of only 10%, or about $1.05 per bbl., well below the 35% or so that had been bruited about a few months...
...left the friendly confines of Baker Field with a 27-7 shellacking of Columbia. The Lions pawed their way to a 7-0 first quarter lead on the strength of an 87-yard march, Kirk Combs leaping over the goalline from a yard out. But Princeton quickly knotted the affair on Art Walker's three yard jaunt late in the period...
According to Scarf, many of these women "don't know how to be their own person or do their own thing." Another woman was admitted to the hospital because "her world had fallen to pieces." Her husband had had an extramarital affair with her best friend, yet she would not admit anger toward her husband. When she was finally able to confront the real reason behind her feelings, she became aggressively angry with her husband. The male attendants tried to subdue her, thus doing what Scarf considers to be "positioning" the woman. Her inability to express anger had caused...