Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history. In some cases, doubtless the bloody trail leading back to a rival capital or throne was simply successfully covered. But in most cases, it seems morality or pragmatic politics allowed the targets, however tempting, to remain untouched. Like modern urban murder, assassination seems historically either a family affair or a psychotic...
Wilson was more at ease with women below his social and intellectual level. Determinedly throwing off a puritanical upbringing, he tirelessly pursued sexual conquests, grappling in the backs of taxis, making passes in tango palaces. His most satisfying affair was with a woman he later wrote about in Memoirs of Hecate County, a waitress from a Brooklyn slum who had a husband in Sing Sing...
...affair came out in the open when three members of the organization wrote, at the request of Archie C. Epps II, dean of students, a report that cited "a growing tendency" by the Undergraduates involved "to spend U.N. money on items not necessary to the running of the conference...
...everything changed. In what may go down as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki of the Kennedy Library affair. Stephen Smith, president of the library corporation, made two searing announcements, three months apart...
...last meeting of the four schools, the Crimson-Bulldog team made a tea party out of the affair, swamping the visiting Englishmen on a rain-soaked track...