Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next season, as Mike began his comeback, we struck up a friendship and became drinking partners. Eighteen-year-old drinking hadn't yet become legal in Maine, and drinking partnership was a serious affair. During the winter, we would cruise the back roads of Kennebunk, quaffing Colt .45, the completely unique experience. With Mike, it was. Mike took his drinking seriously, but had a morbid funny bone when it came to close calls. One winter night, after upsetting a 16 oz. Colt in my lap by skidding around a corner and ramming a snowbank, Mike looked over and grinned...
Kurt B. Anderson '76, an editor of the Lampoon, said yesterday that the Lampoon had asked for the vehicles, "but it's not our affair anymore...
...your article "The Big Car: End of the Affair" [Dec. 31], I find it distressing, sick, and almost unimaginable that there is little that can replace the gluttonous oversized cars as a part of the American dream. For a Christian nation, we sure are hung up on the tangibles anyway...
...guest of honor at the surprise birthday party last week tried gamely to make the affair fun for everyone. He grinned as his staff members carried in a gaily decorated white cake while singing a squeaky version of Happy Birthday. When he got some icing on his hands, he dutifully followed the directions called out by his wife: "Lick your fingers, Dick." He even got his Irish setter, King Timahoe, to lick off a glob of frosting that had polluted his maroon sports jacket. Pointing at the sullen skies outside, he joked to his aides: "Take the rest...
Thanks to Arabs, environmentalists, and Nader's Raiders, among others, the long American love affair with the big car has distinctly chilled. In the face of fuel cutbacks and a growing resistance to new jetports, air travel is more parlous than ever. As the clickety-clackers have insisted for decades, there is no realistic alternative to mass transportation in the U.S. but the nation's once-magnificent railroad system. Even given the highly unlikely return of abundant fuel, the U.S. could not indefinitely tolerate or afford the poisonous pollution, cost, congestion, racket and uglification of a transportation system...