Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, the Queen's second state visit to France in 15 years was a regal affirmation of the current warm state of Anglo-French relations. As President Georges Pompidou discreetly noted in his welcoming speech, "some hesitations and difficulties of an old love affair begun in 1957" had occurred in the meantime. Later, at a banquet Her Majesty remarked: "We may drive on different sides of the road, but we are going the same way." The same way, of course, is a united Western Europe, and with the Queen's visit Britain seemed all but signed, sealed...
...traditional rummage sale is a backyard affair at which the customers gather to buy a neighbor's castoff items -ranging from rusty potato peelers to used refrigerators-at castoff prices. In the past few years, however, the sales have grown too big for the one-family garage; they have moved into farm fields, drive-in theaters, convention halls and even Pasadena's famous Rose Bowl. A far cry from the old neighborhood affairs, which were largely stocked with merchandise from family attics, the new supersales have become major outlets for professional merchants anxious to dispose of leftover goods...
...Triad seems to be about a triangular love relationship in which a girl (Antoinette Sibley) breaks up an affair between two male homosexuals (Anthony Dowell and Wayne Eagling). The program reveals, however, that the boys are brothers. Fraternal love is admittedly difficult to convey these days, but in this short work MacMillan has compounded the problem by his cramped and largely uninteresting choreography...
...Public Affair-Election '72. An examination of Sen. George McGovern's (D-S.D.) campaign strategy in the non-primary states. The focus is Colorado where Democratic National Convention delegates were chosen on May 15, 8, May 24. Chan...
...little girl at all at that age-I never had been." At 16, she was bounced from TV's Dobie Gillis because a sponsor thought she was out of place on a family show. Men took on an early importance (she claims she had her "first real affair" when she was eleven), and her succession of boy friends ranged from Albert Finney and John Barrymore Jr. to Terence Stamp and the ubiquitous George Hamilton...