Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many candidates, fundraising is a year-round affair, a continuous process that begins as early as the day after the last election and intensifies in the spring of the current election year. And although the methods of fundraising vary, the goal is the same--to raise as much money as possible...
...matter how frustrating the whole affair was, no one can deny that it was an exciting game. It was a spectacular show, a brilliant display by two young and immensely talented quarterbacks...
...course. We're not talking about the need for purity. We all have clay feet. We fall from grace. But it's so easy to have an extramarital affair without getting caught. Context is everything. Why, right after the big success, do they start doing it? And why do they get caught? These people, such as Hart, are ragingly self-destructive...
...Latin-Catholic south; hunting, fishing and sex (remember Jimmy Swaggart?) tend to predominate in the Protestant north. Former Governor Earl K. Long managed to touch most of those bases: he loved nothing better than boar hunting and horse racing, and he ended his life in a steamy affair with a New Orleans stripper named Blaze Starr. Ex-Governor Edwin Edwards, who revels in his image as a womanizer and gambler, once boasted that the only thing that could lose him an election was being caught in bed "with a dead girl or a live boy." One Governor who definitely...
Seaman brings unusual qualifications to his latest assignment. As senior White House correspondent during most of Ronald Reagan's second term, he covered the Iran-contra affair, speaking often with North's colleagues in the West Wing and on the National Security Council. He never succeeded in cornering the elusive lieutenant colonel himself, although he did once glimpse the infamous paper shredder. Firsthand knowledge of the players did not prevent Seaman from being surprised by some of the revelations in Under Fire, however. One disclosure was the extent to which the late CIA director William Casey "ran" North, schooling...