Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hinted that a break-through might he near in the big-power talks on Berlin, which reconvene this week. But there has also been abundant evidence of a chill in other areas, such as Cuba and the Middle East. And then there is the strange, still unresolved U-8 affair...
Moulton said that he had not known that the Planning Team favored this firm, but added, "Since Harvard is acting as the catalyst in this whole affair, it is only just that they should have a major say in the choice of a developer...
...seismographs around the world measured the impact of the closely spaced explosions, the U.N.'s anniversary session was shaping up, like the U.S. underground test, as a strictly low-yield affair. On the first day, when General Assembly President Edvard Hambro of Norway rose to declare that "the world will be listening to what we say and watching what we do," he stared out over vast expanses of empty seats and delegates of far less stature than had been anticipated...
...IMPORTANT to distinguish the problems of form and function in Mather House. As a collection of masses, the building succeeds admirably. The tower balances with Peabody Terrace, the lowrise balances with Dunster House, and the idea of an interior space gives the whole affair a kind of lumbering cosmic equilibrium. Terra cotta was the original choice for the exterior faces, and the texture which it would have provided might have prevented the tower from looking like a rouged waffle-iron...
These explorers allegedly set foot in the New World around 135 A.D. "There was more than one boatload," Cyrus H. Gordon said last Sunday. "Perhaps it was a two-way affair, with some colonists returning to the Old World to spread the news. We do not know how long this colony lasted...