Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edwards warned blacks of the results of a premature racial revolution. "If it comes to black against white it will be the most lopsided affair since the lions ate lunch at the Coliseum. You hear talk of guerrilla warfare, but the white people are going to be guerrillas too. We have neither the guns nor the hands...
...Fraser affair satisfied Liberal leaders once and for all that Gorton was not the man to lead their party -which has ruled Australia since 1949 in coalition with the smaller Country Party-into next year's elections. The Liberals sustained heavy losses under Gorton in 1969 and 1970, when their popular vote dropped to 38% (from 43% in 1969). In this year's state elections, the opposition Labor Party came to power in western Australia and almost won in New South Wales. After a three-hour Liberal caucus, Gorton's colleagues deadlocked...
...minded politician, seemed unable to pacify the country's warring factions. He lost considerable personal prestige by using his influence to swing a reported $2,000,000 in bank loans for his two businessmen brothers, Sevket and Ali, and then trying to block a parliamentary investigation of the affair. When four U.S. airmen were kidnaped two weeks ago (see box), Demirel left it to others to appeal to the kidnapers to spare the airmen's lives. His weak performance finally exhausted the patience of Turkey's generals...
...semester of last year, was the result of repeated student agitation. Predictably, as men moved to Radcliffe and women moved to Harvard, the undergraduate push for merger relaxed. Students didn't seem to care anymore if Harvard and Radcliffe were legally married, as long as they were having an affair...
...longtime Daley friend, Lee stoutly maintained that the affair was "strictly nonpolitical." Said he before the dinner: "It's so the working people of the city can pay tribute to the mayor for all his consideration toward them. You won't see politicians and a lot of big names here." Perhaps. But the record should show that Daley, who has served four terms as mayor of Chicago, is standing for re-election on April...