Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power plant at the last hearing. "I listened to everybody and then I sat back and asked myself, 'Self, do I want this power plant?' And I said yes, because the power plant is linked to the housing, and the people want that housing." Fitzgerald has no love affair with Harvard, and he confides that some administrators at Harvard warned him that even if they didn't get local support, the University might go ahead and build its power plant anyway--and say to hell with the housing...
...wore on the parade was a still a grand affair, but it had lost a lot of its solemnity as the Orangemen got drunk and tired. By the time the I reached Edenderry Field, suitcoats were off, bowlers tipped back, ties pulled down and disordered. Edenderry is an expansive horseshoe-shaped slope and the speakers' platform was tucked away in one corner under some trees--almost, it seemed, on purpose. Most of the revelers just lounged around on the grass, eating, drinking, or trying to get over hangovers from drinking earlier in the day. And only a small crowd gathered...
...Testament, Paul's views on sexuality were colored by his shock at the Greco-Roman world at the time. The homosexuality of Paul's era, says Norman Pittenger of England's Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity, "was often just licentious, not in any way a noble and moral affair as it had been among many of the Greeks of, say, Plato's time." Some argue that today's homosexuals, if not noble, are often truly loving. The British Society of Friends in its book Toward a Quaker View on Sex maintains that "it is the nature and quality...
...room. Two men sit around a table. They are bargaining and they've been going like this all summer long, but the trading deadline's tomorrow. Occasionally the haggling gets loud enough so that you can hear a snip of the conversation despite the secrecy that surrounds the whole affair...
Husbands commonly waive their legal right to determine where the couple will live, and agree to do half of the household chores. Many provisions emphasize privacy and freedom, calling for separate rooms and nights out. Extramarital affairs, says Sussman, bring "the greatest amount of inconsistency and confusion." Some contracts permit affairs, though there are often rules about how long an affair can go on without one's married partner being informed...