Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with its babbling affection. One bystander, seeing that Agnew was sweating heavily in the noonday sun, whipped out a large white handkerchief and mopped the vice-presidential brow. "He is the greatest Greek," cried another. In a doorway of the family house, a two-story whitewashed stone and stucco affair built 161 years ago, Agnew met his black-clad cousin Anastasia and Anastasia's 19-year-old son Demokratis, who presented him with a bouquet of red gladioli. Inside-while at the doors a crowd of people claiming to be relatives waved invitation cards and tried vainly...
...State Fair of Texas is a big, wide, awkwardly handsome affair, of Texans, by Texans and for Texans. Its virtues and excesses require a native's perspective. TIME Writer Mark Goodman was born and raised in Dallas, and returned for a nostalgic look at the fair. His report...
...union leaders may well insist that their governments raise still higher barriers against imports. In that case, they would also resist pressure for currency revaluations that would make U.S. goods more competitive in world markets. Raymond Barre, French vice president of the Common Market Commission, warns, "In this affair, time runs in no one's favor. It runs against everyone, the U.S. included." Unless the trade bars are soon brought down, protectionism will merely build more protectionism...
...rights a film of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair should have been a natural. History provided everything--racism, repression, corruption in high places, the execution of innocents. Given the least bit of subtlety and finesse, a contemporary retelling of the episode could have been both popular and politically apt. As it is, Giuliano Montaldo has directed a sloppy and sentimentalized muddle of a film...
Brown still hasn't won a game this season. The Bruins went down to defeat at the hands of Colgate in a high-scoring affair...