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Word: affair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teams that competed in the first round of the Ivy League women's soccer championship yesterday, it was literally an all-or-nothing affair...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Elis, Tigers and Bruins Win In First Round of Ivy Tourney | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

Bokassa reportedly also gave state gifts to Giscard's brother, two of the President's cousins, a top adviser and a pair of Cabinet ministers. Tart and punful as always, the Duck dubbed the affair "Giscarat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Duck Hunting | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...father did very well in burlesque, however, and money problems led to divorce. Mickey's mother took him to California and got him parts in films; his big break came in 1937 when MGM cast him as Andy Hardy, the typical small town boy, in A Family Affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Andy Hardy Comes Home | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...women feel more guilty than men when they cheat on their mates? Yes, concludes a Penn State study, but they get more emotional satisfaction out of the affair. Of 205 men and women-all recently separated or divorced-surveyed by Sociologist Graham Spanier, more than a third said they had cheated during marriage (38% males, 37% females). But a much higher percentage of the straying women said they found their adventures very satisfactory (57% to the males' 34%). The women paid the price for being satisfied; they reported almost twice as much guilt as men. Spanier says that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Infidelity Poll | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...spends the first half of its life undoing its parents' work and the second half undoing its parents' work and the second half undoing its own. Jacob Horner is either performing in or direction (it's unclear) a play called Der Wiedertraum ("the Repeat Dream"), which reenacts his adulterous affair with the wife of a fellow inmate of the Remobilization Clinic. And so it goes, over and over again...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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