Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Damascus Road. The strongest charges against Stans were that he had committed perjury before the grand jury while testifying about the Vesco affair. To explain away two of the counts, Bonner reminded the jury that at the time he had testified Stans had been desperately worried about the near fatal illness of his wife. Bonner inquired of the jurors if they had ever paid a hospital visit to someone they loved who was on the edge of death. "Do you think that would affect you?" he asked...
...even if the race is limited to 26 horses, the Derby could be an untamed affair. Lucien Laurin, trainer of the last two Derby winners, Secretariat and Riva Ridge, says that 26 horses bolting from the gate would be "a cavalry charge," with so much bumping and jostling that many horses would be knocked off stride before reaching the first turn. Laurin himself has decided not to enter Secretariat's half brother Capital Asset, an embarrassing relative which finished last in the Wood. Meanwhile, everyone else's horse van keeps arriving in Louisville...
...middle-aged lover sits on the edge of the bed, considering. The young girl wants him to underwrite their new affair with counterfeit emotion, the play money of compliments, declarations, vows. For once in his life he refuses. "Truth in a relationship," he insists to himself. "Surely it is a greater thing than kindness?" Greater, perhaps, but more painful: both he and the girl realize without saying so that their fling is already over...
...Hollywood's attributes were so amply like West Egg's, Hollywood was bound to lure Fitzgerald into a mad hate-love affair. Its attraction could magnetize the man as certainly as it could rot his art. As the peeling Dr. Eckleberg--monument to America's first age of advertising and god of the ash heaps--mocked the death of Gatsby's dreams, so Hollywood--monster bulwark of materialism and smug summit of the equation--tortured Fitzgerald. Yes, the place could be as hostile to Fitzgerald as West Egg had been to Gatsby. Though both could dream unto death, neither could...
...Danehy remains bitter over Sullivan's affair with the liberals and has repeatedly tried to break up the romance with attacks on several fronts. He already has introduced a measure before the council to abolish the controversial rent control board in Cambridge. The three CCA councilors and Saundra Graham of the radical Grass Roots Organization defeated that measure with votes from Sullivan and Russell...