Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the ground war was a strictly Vietnamese affair, U.S. and North Vietnamese forces traded shot and shell on another front-the sea. Since the invasion began, a flotilla of more than a score of U.S. destroyers and guided-missile frigates and cruisers had been shelling North Vietnamese positions north and south of the DMZ. Then, last week, the North Vietnamese responded. At least three enemy MIGs swept over the destroyer U.S.S. Higbee. During two passes, they landed a bomb square atop the ship's magazine, causing an explosion that blew out a portion of the superstructure...
...Public Affair--Election '72. "How with the South Vote in '72?" 8, May 3. Chan...
...YORK TIMES Book Review piece last fall on Joseph Lash's Fleanor and Franklin. Professor Frank Freidel scolded gossips who place too much emphasis on the Lucy Mercer affair because "they lose sight of a larger significance: the solidarity and effectiveness of the Roosevelt marriage in the area of politics and reform." Those with a similarly enlightened view of the political potential for male-female relationships in modern American society will give thanks that at least one Harvard publishing unit is still willing to lose money on an item of political and social importance--such as this complete collection...
...understand that you are planning to convene a National Convention and not a local affair which was the impression given in the original application I would have appreciated more frankness...
...doubles, as you might expect, were not exactly an exhausting affair. Lindner and Masterson, perhaps the top unit in the EITA this Spring, swept Warner and Small at number one, 6-3, 7-5, and the Ingard-Nielsen team, gradually rounding into top form, handled Simon and Talbert at two, 6-4, 6-2. Loring and Barnett completed the enterprise at three, 6-3, 6-2, over Marver and Kieler...