Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...torrid affair. It is certainly not characterized by unquestioning loyalty on the part of the student body as a whole toward the squads that represent it in intercollegiate play. Harvard does not live or die by the outcome of the battles between its chosen forces and those of an opposing college...
Something about Richard Nixon has always seemed to spur his opponents on to unusually harsh attacks. During the whole Watergate affair, the prime thought was not on any real crime the President might have committed, but on how to "get Nixon." Well, they finally "got him," and it makes me sick...
...loves. There is the January morning when the bay near Cole's house in Brunswick becomes a 30-sq.-mi. ice rink, and he glides across it alone, watching the sun and clouds pass in perfect reflection under his skates. With unabashed enthusiasm, Cole explains his lifetime love affair with Roccus saxatilis (striped bass), that "master of tumbling currents and white-water turbulence." Like a poet, he extolls the virtues of the northwest wind and wonders how city dwellers can live without "knowing which way the wind blows, which way the rain falls, how the sea surges, the land...
...some Europeans, who have never shared the U.S. optimism that oil prices would soon drop, the affair proved once again that oil prices are not determined by economics alone. "The fact of the surplus means nothing at all," says Paul Frankel, a London oil consultant. A high official of the European Common Market adds: "Prices will continue to be determined by political, not economic factors...
...Stuart Magruder, 39, was accompanied by the Rev. Louis Evans Jr., of Washington's National Presbyterian Church, when he was sentenced in May for conspiring to obstruct justice. Last year after the Watergate affair had begun to unravel, Magruder joined one of the intimate "covenant" groups that Evans had started in order to feed the "spiritual hunger" in Washington. Jeb's wife Gail joined another (also attended by Mark Hatfield's wife Antoinette). The groups are small-typically only a dozen people who bind themselves to each other through eight principles or covenants. The principles include...