Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans usually manage to get their boats back, after paying fines that have ranged as high as $86,000. Since the U.S. Government reimburses the fishermen, the situation would be tolerable, if mildly embarrassing, except that Ecuador has now managed to turn the whole Ustinovian affair into a diplomatic confrontation. Uncle Sam, to retaliate against Ecuador, cut off military aid, which came to $4,500,000 last year. "Aggression!" exclaimed Ecuador, though there seemed something faintly odd in using that particular word to describe cutting off military supplies. The Ecuadoreans claim, however, that such sanctions violate the Organization of American...
...broadtail shorts, priced up to $200, which are perfectly at home in his zebra-walled living room (see color picture). Says Kaplan: "They are the quickest way to fight the long length." Buyers couldn't agree more. In Paris, minishorts are an everynight, run-of-the-disco affair. They are particularly suited for dancing, according to one wearer last week, because "you don't have to remember to keep your knees together." Adds a model in London, where the style is going strong: "You can sit how you like and walk upstairs without everyone going...
...little familiarity with a university to know that students, with rare exceptions indeed, have no capacity to exercise scholarly authority. If they had, they would not be students: It is as simple as that. But they can turn a curriculum and the agency administering that curriculum into a political affair...
...mention of hotels led to wild tales of past trips. One of the most recent involved a one-night affair during Christmas vacation pitting the wits of New York's Penn Garden Hotel against the brawn of one medium-sized Harvard team, with supporting roles played by various members of the Bowdoin and Yale squads...
...Forgotten Soldier is finally the account of a disastrous love affair with war and with the army that, of all modern armies, most loved war. Though the affair ended badly, there has been nothing to rival it in the three decades since. Permanently Gefreiter Sajer, G., 100/1010 G4., permanently disqualified for peace, he is a soul as devastated as a Russian battlefield and he knows it. He concludes: "I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition"-an elitist in defeat as he surely would have been in victory. But to his reader, this Sajer...