Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Banuelos, who began by making tortillas 22 years ago and has built her operation into a $6 million business, saw the affair quite differently. She claimed never to have received Rosenberg's letter; her workers were well treated, she said, although she admitted that she never inquired into their nationality. The whole thing, she insisted, was "part of an attempt by Democrats to block my nomination as Treasurer...
Things patch up and a two-year homosexual affair follows. Forster handles love scenes with exquisite tact, neither prudish nor extravagant, but by even the broadest of erotic standards, the novel is decidedly small-time stuff--gentle rather than sensual...
Freely admitting her role in the affair, Lady Fleming told the court: "I could not bear the thought that he was being inhumanly tortured in jail." Why did she do it? Friends said she was convinced that Panaghoulis was a tyrannoktonos (in the ancient Greek sense, a man who kills a tyrant) and was therefore "the conscience of Greece" and had to be saved...
...best of them Nabokov, whose subject is often the nature of creativity itself. What fictional furniture there is seems of secondary importance, to be moved around at will. Tony seems negligent and disillusioned. He is married to Elizabeth, whom he "likes," but his only real involvement is an obsessive affair with Natalia Jones, the wife of another M.P. On the face of it Natalia seems a routine bitch. Her jealousy, her suicide threats, her retreat to her husband when Tony becomes serious are all clich...
...civil government in Southern Laos is essentially a family affair. Province governments are laced with officials related to Boun Oum either directly or through marriage. For example, the governor of Sedone Province, centered in Pakse, is a half-brother of the Prince. Even the chief of the veterinary service for the province is married to one of his nieces...