Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January, have yet to be made public. Now it seems that some new disclosures-and possibly more trouble for the Senator-are imminent. District Attorney Edmund Dinis last week requested that a grand jury look into the case, a move that increased the likelihood that the entire Chappaquiddick affair may soon be aired in open court...
...then maybe." Sam traced wheels in the carpet, ashamed at refusing so lovely an affair. "I'm still too afraid of the jungle to risk...
...grandfather, W.D. Boyce, founded the American Boy Scouts. James Oughton, 55, Diana's father, is a Dartmouth graduate and restaurateur. Diana and her three sisters were cherished and deeply loved. Said her father: "The social life in Dwight has never separated adults from children. Dinner was a family affair, and there was a pretty wide discussion all the way through...
...scheduled parliamentary elections to hoist him back into the Cabinet - against Makarios' wishes. Thus his murderers could have been members of one of the pro-Makarios secret armies on the island. They could have been Greek officers in Cyprus' National Guard, still bristling over the Papadopoulos affair. Or they might have been Cypriots of the extremist National Front, which has been waging a terrorist campaign to encourage enosis, or union with Greece, rather than the in dependence that both Georgadjis and the archbishop considered more feasible...
Though the world Alpine ski championship is nominally an amateur affair, the spectacle staged in Val Gardena, Italy, last month looked more like the world ski-trade fair. With their equipment splashily plastered with brand names, contestants paraded before the TV cameras like walking commercials. For a $400-a-month payoff, one entrant sported the badge of a resort he has never even seen. After winning the special slalom, France's Jean-Noel Augert shouted "Vive Le Courbier!"-a hard-sell pitch for a ski resort in which, as he put it, "I am investing all my savings...