Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killing of unarmed thousands in Dacca [April 5] by the ruthless military machine of West Pakistan is not genocide, then what is? Don't hide behind fancy words implying that it is an internal affair of Pakistan...
...Father Gigante offered prayers at a Planned Parenthood banquet, I'm sure his bishop would have been induced to comment publicly. As an American of Italian descent, I can only be embarrassed over the whole sad affair...
AFTER the wrenching ordeal of the Galley affair, it was time for a moment of vernal exuberance. The sap was running in Vermont, where farmers have tapped the sugar maples and the stuff is flowing through plastic tubing directly from the trees to the sugarhouses. Detroit's Belle Isle Park and the banks of the Charles River in Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap...
...surprisingly, a large number of University officials have already reached the opposite conclusion. Three days after the aborted Counter Teach-In, the Faculty Council described the Land affair as one "in which threats led to the cancellation of a scheduled lecture by a well-known scientist." And soon afterward, a statement by President-elect Bok again alluded to Land by saying that "for the second time this year, visitors at Harvard have been prevented from speaking by the obstructive acts of others...
...ARMY was embarrassed by the entire Font affair and was generally unwilling to discuss it. Post Commander Col. Alexander admitted last month that the housing conditions at Ft. Meade had been sub-standard but that they were quickly renovated. He flatly denied that Font was ever placed in an empty room with nothing to do. "I have attempted very strongly to employ him profitably," Alexander said. "If I have a lieutenant I like to get a day's work...