Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the Maguire Affair came at last to a conclusion. "We chose peace," Maguire told friends. He had agreed to give up his battle to stay at the school in return for "a just settlement" for the remaining year of his contract and a decree of laicization that would permit him to "continue working in the Catholic context." Early this month, from the Papal Secretary of State, came the news that the decree had been granted. Then, in a private, traditional ceremony in a Maryland church, Maguire's brother Joseph, a U.S. Navy chaplain, married the couple. Writing...
N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle, distressed by the Thomas affair and by the several players in the league who are still holding out for more money, called for an end to all the haggling. "I'm convinced," said Rozelle, "that the football fan-the sports fan-is disenchanted with the business aspects of the game, the lawsuits, contracts, franchise problems, stadium financing, pension plans." Right on, Pete...
Even at dinner parties, Shultz is completely committed. At one black-tie affair, he exhaustively tried to convince the British ambassador of the merits of the President's economic program. Burns, by contrast, has become one of Washington's inveterate fun-loving partygoers. He likes to dance so much that his wife Helen says she would like to slow him down, but she does not know...
...ordered them to stop playing on old hatreds. He stumped the country, at one point told a crowd: "The papers write that as long as Tito is there, he will somehow manage to hold it together, but if he should go, everything will fall apart. What a sorry affair if all this depends on only one man!" Thanks largely to the efforts of that one man, the situation has measurably improved...
Needle Park is a more conventional work, concentrating on a love affair between a pusher named Bobby (Al Pacino) and a girl called Helen (Kitty Winn), who has come to New York from Indiana, had a bad love affair and a painful abortion. She picks up a habit from Bobby and becomes a prostitute to raise dope money for both of them. They hole up with other junkies in the threadbare hotel rooms around...