Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...match was a close affair throughout, as the first four weights seesawed back and forth. Dave Albert dropped a 9-6 decision at 118. But Mr. Consistency, Milt Yasunaga, scored a decisive 8-0 victory to tie the score...
...Colberts know how pleased he was: "I pondered your nice picture," he wrote. "Let me tell you that many children in the world are born good like you, but many, when they grow up, lose theirgood will toward our people." Yasser Colbert is not likely to. The whole affair was a hoax perpetrated by a determined autograph collector, Robert Colbert, an out-of-work machine operator. He had tried the same trick without success on Presidents Kennedy and Nixon and Vice President Rockefeller, using a picture of his son Robert, now 12, when he was a baby. Robert likes...
...Grossman affair is not the first time that Evans has refused to "play the game." In 1966 his paper uncovered electoral gerrymandering in Northern Ireland and in 1971 revealed that the British army had tortured suspects there. Evans also ignored a 1967 government warning and published the memoirs of Soviet Counterspy Kim Philby. For the past two years, the paper has fought a court order banning its ten-year-old investigation of the thalidomide scandal...
...Agee's agonies and his nobleness are equally the affair of no one who cannot keep still or as good as still, about them and there is no chance that all of you can. But some of you can and some of you are hard beset and bound to someone in brotherhood perhaps in art and you may see that the brotherhood you know is of a kind really wider than you may have thought binding others among the living and the dead...
...comparison with the great influenza epidemics, the plague that hit Minnesota recently was a trivial affair. One hundred and twenty-five people were stricken with nausea and diarrhea after eating in a local restaurant. No one died in the outbreak, but about 50 were sufficiently sick to consult physicians, eleven were afflicted seriously enough to require hospitalization, and many were bedridden for one or more days. Normally, such an outbreak, which was traced to Salmonella bacteria, receives little attention from health authorities...