Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fort Benning stockade to house arrest and then added that he intended to review the Calley case before final sentence is carried out, he left several interesting things unsaid. One was that two days before he reportedly awoke at 2 a.m. to wrestle with his conscience over the Calley affair, the President discussed congressional distress at the guilty verdict by telephone with his party's leader in the House, Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan-although the White House insists it was not the President who brought up the subject. Another was that he bypassed Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird...
...Octubre. Even without the comic embellishments, which probably exaggerate the Soviet role in the affair, the story is a remarkable account of international intrigue. As pieced together by TIME correspondents from various sources, it all began in the dormitory of Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University in Moscow. The time was October 1968. Upset by the bloody university riots in Mexico City that month, which claimed at least 34 lives, six Mexican students studying at Lumumba University on Soviet scholarships got together and decided to form a clandestine organization. They named it Movimiento de Acción Revolucionaria...
...happened to a more vulnerable guy. Hank Glyczwycz is a bitter middle-aged cynic. He was just beginning to loosen up to his students' sweet faith in love and peace highs when Gloria wrecks him with her disclosure. She is the forgotten illegitimate daughter from a distant love affair...
...moment, both Senators denied that they are candidates, though with a grin they said they might be "Interested." But as much as Muskie and Bayh tried to deny it, their presence transformed today's rally into a decidedly "political" affair...
Ptashne appeared unconcerned about the whole affair. "I worried about the bombing for one day." he said, "but you can't let these things bother you for too long...