Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice Department probers promptly announced that Bell and Carter were cleared of any charge of obstruction of justice in the affair. But the Republican partisans on Capitol Hill had no intention of letting the Administration off so easily. Thundered Utah's Orrin Hatch: "That two-day whitewash [the Justice Department's inquiry] isn't going to satisfy anybody!" O'Neill fumed that Marston was "a Republican political animal" who took office "with viciousness in his heart and for only one reason-to get Democrats." In response, Delaware G.O.P. Congressman Thomas Evans pointed out that Marston...
Amin's answer, in essence, was that Egyptians could hardly be anti-Semitic since they are themselves Semites. One political cartoon in the influential al Ahram pointedly advised Begin: "Don't make excuses. We are not antiSemitic. We are anti-you." The affair became slightly farcical when the Cairo press fell to speculating over whether the Egyptians were not in fact an older and purer strain of the Semitic family than the Israelis. Then Sadat announced that he had no objection to observing "a quiet period" after so much angry rhetoric; the anti-Israeli press campaign ended almost...
...unexceptional man, collides with another lieutenant named Feraud (Harvey Keitel). Feraud is a strutting, bloody-minded fool, and he challenges D'Hubert to a duel. Though D'Hubert knows that the matter is silly, honor forces him to fight. Feraud is wounded, though not severely, and the affair seems to be well ended...
...camera is more at home in the salon and ballroom scenes, which perfectly convey the elegant Frenchified world of the pre-Revolutionary aristocracy, where everything is al lowed so long as it is hidden. Nearly everyone is having an affair like Anna's and Vronsky's, and adultery seems to be the thing the rich do best...
...combination of internal complications and uncertainty about the convention's role and strategy have caused the delay. Establishing bylaws, for example, became a two-week affair. First a committee established to decide on rules of procedure for the convention met and hashed out decisions on voting rights, quorum size and other issues. Then the full convention, in a classic display of Monday-morning quarterbacking, proceeded to debate the by-laws item by item, and after two meetings agreed on an amended version that looked suspiciously like the original version...