Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Festival had originally been planned for the overpass north of Harvard Yard, but after the April 15 riots the Cambridge City Manager revoked the permit. Instead, the Earth People held yesterday's abbreviated one-day affair...
...strong scent of fresh hope emerging from the article on Psychologist Morton Bard's love affair with New York's 30th Police Precinct Family Crisis Intervention Unit [March 23] brought tears to eyes that, accustomed to mirages, overreacted when a real oasis appeared...
Still, the President could have absorbed the blow quietly, picked a more suitable candidate for his third try at the court and hoped that the affair would eventually blow over. Instead, displaying signs of the zest for political roughhousing that was his hallmark in the 1940s and '50s, Nixon decided to slug it out with the Senate. The conflict that he thus launched could have greater impact on his Administration ?and on the country?than the Senate's rejection of Clement Haynsworth Jr. and George Harrold Carswell...
...Goldmann Affair. Despite such protests, the bombing was clearly a propaganda setback for Israel. So was the fallout from an incident that occurred earlier in the week that the Israelis called "the Goldmann Affair." Dr. Nahum Goldmann, 74, is a Polish-born Zionist leader who maintains that for the sake of peace Israel ought to be a small neutralized protectorate "of the whole of mankind," including Arabs. Through political contacts outside Israel, Goldmann apparently managed to interest Nasser in a meeting to explore possible peace terms. Nasser insisted, however, that Goldmann notify the Israeli government of what he was doing...
...play-offs began, Boston and Chicago both jumped off to 2-0 series leads, thanks to decisive home-ice victories. Regardless of the outcome, that agonizing last weekend had produced one final twist: with Montreal and Toronto finishing out of the money, the Stanley Cup was a strictly U.S. affair for the first time in the history of the league...