Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Harvard did not put the game away until midway through the third period, the contest was one-sided affair from the opening face-off, and the Harvard's special teams took center stage in the dominating effort...
Speaking of candy hearts, those multi-colored sweets are one of the most annoying things about the whole affair. Don't Get us wrong; we like candy as much as anyone else. It's the little messages on them we have problems with. "I luv U." "Will U be mine?" If they got any cheesier, we would serve them on crackers...
...Brawley affair was not an isolated event. Sharpton has repeatedly employed the same techniques: he searches out alleged victims of racial violence, designates himself as their spokesperson and does what he can to stir up racial tension...
...Police Department is investigating the murder of Laura, the woman in the portrait. McPherson rounds up a delicious list of suspects. There is Laura's fiance Shelby, a Southern gigolo played by a very young and dapper Vincent Price. There is also Laura's aunt, who is having an affair with Shelby. And lastly, there's Waldo Lydeker (Clifton Webb), an acid-tongued newspaper columnist whose pen, in his own words, is dipped in poison...
...hour-long speech was an apt symbol of Clinton's presidency after one year: a bold, ungainly, often messy affair that moves in many directions, is impervious to order and yet, by sheer dint of effort, may prove successful. Recent polls have shown that Americans -- whatever they think of his policies and his character -- appreciate Clinton's formidable energy and his doughty resilience. And Clinton knows these traits are his biggest advantages. As he told a senior Republican lawmaker last fall, "I'm a lot like Baby Huey. I'm fat. I'm ugly. But if you push me down...