Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oven ("If it won't catch fire today, clean it tomorrow"), hand-me-down clothes, daytime naps, gardening, sibling rivalry ("Who gets the fruit cocktail with the lone cherry on top?"), chewing gum, home barbering and the ids of March. "If a woman is ever to have an affair" a recent column began, "it will be in March. Psychologically, it is a perfect month. The bowling tournaments are over. The white sales on bedding are past. Your chest cold has stabilized and the Avon lady is beginning to look like Tom Jones...
...insinuate herself into the friendship and concern of an established theater star, Margo Channing (Bacall). Middle age is the devil's prompter in Marge's mind, popping biting retorts in her mouth about the jeopardy of fame, and chilling qualms in her heart about her love affair with a younger director (Len Cariou). With serpentine guile and horizontal campaigning, Eve slithers her way upward toward Margo's coveted stardom. However, Margo salvages what counts most: her lover, plus the hard-won grace to acknowledge that even unscrupulous youth must be served...
Today's game, matching two powerful hitting teams, could be a high-scoring affair. Since either team can produce a big inning, the key to the outcome should be the late-inning strength of the hurlers...
...Army Affair. An equally serious difficulty was the Communist Vietnamese military presence. Before Sihanouk's fall, Lon Nol called on the Communists to evacuate their Cambodian sanctuaries immediately. That demand was not emphasized publicly after the takeover. Nonetheless, Sirik Matak told TIME Correspondent Burton Pines in Phnom-Penh that getting rid of the Communist forces remained a primary goal. "We demand that they immediately leave our territory," the prince said. "Sihanouk violated his own-and our-proclaimed policy of neutralism by permitting the Vietnamese foreigners to stay inside Cambodia. We cannot tolerate it. We have every expectation that this...
...black power would prefer to see that power insulated. When Dean Rusk's daughter wed a black in 1967, the Richmond News Leader spoke for many Southerners-and Northerners-who felt that mixed marriages were "eccentric," and that "anything which diminishes [Rusk's] personal acceptability is an affair of state...