Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baby was Prince Nicholaos, four months, youngest child of Greece's exiled King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie. The christening in Rome's tiny Greek Orthodox Church, described by the King as a "mini-royal affair," was attended by a small clutch of relatives including Queen Mother Frederika and Anne-Marie's parents, King Frederik and Queen Ingrid of Denmark. Like any little commoner, the prince squalled lustily but settled down when the King pinned the gold and diamond Order of the Savior to his christening gown. "Then I take it away until...
...football band is not admitting women because "our looseness and lewdness are just too sacred to us," Dill said. "We play at boxing matches and hockey games and our annual banquet has always been a stag-type affair," he added...
ELIOT HOUSE dinner is an intricately choreographed affair. Everyone knows his cues, such as the CRIMSON editorial board member who advised me the first week that "none of the Right People in Eliot House dine before...
...Walt [Rostow] or George [Ball]," says one diplomat in London. "Now there's suddenly Heinrich Kissinger in the White House basement sweating over the Baden-Württemberg election, or names like Ehrlichman and Ziegler." One British writer saw Nixon's election as "the end of the affair...
Wits rated it with the Suez invasion as one of Britain's more disastrous Middle Eastern ventures. Prime Minister Harold Wilson hastened to disclaim responsibility for the entire affair. The Times of London spoke somberly "of hospitality blasted, of reputations uprooted and of good intentions snatched up and hurled hundreds of yards into limbo." Added the Times: "A deafening silence has descended over the Middle East. Only the occasional soft sounds of a tank battle serve to fill the echoing void that has been left by the return home of Mr. George Brown...