Word: affair
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Sheehan, an attorney whose organization is currently the plaintiff in a suit against 27 figures from the Iran-Contra affair, said he possesses classified government documents to prove his claim...
...referendum--the largest in Princeton history--students resoundingly approved PIRG. Rudenstine refused to honor the results. No matter what one thinks of PIRG, it simply wasn't right for Rudenstine to allow students to organize for a referendum that the University would never permit to take effect. The entire affair left a bitter legacy with students, alumni and faculty...
...greatest fiction spanned the years 1938 to '51: Brighton Rock (1938), The Heart of the Matter (1948), The End of the Affair (1951) and, most hauntingly, The Power and the Glory (1940). The pilgrimage of the nameless "whiskey priest," on the run in a Mexican state from a sectarian tyranny, remains a thrilling adventure of despair and irrational redemption...
...Senate's wealthiest members, Heinz had been an unlikely champion of unions, the aged and the disabled. After retiring from the Senate in 1984, Tower served as a U.S. arms negotiator and chaired the three-man presidential review board that probed the Iran-contra affair. In 1988, George Bush nominated him for Secretary of Defense, touching off a bruising fight between Congress and the White House. Amid rumors of hard drinking and womanizing, - Tower was voted down by the Senate, 53 to 47, the first time in 30 years that a President had been denied a Cabinet choice...
...Antonio Bologna (Cullen Gerst). But her protective brothers, the Cardinal of Ancona (David Gammons), and Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria (Sean Gullette), are alert to the Duchess' behavior. They assign Bosola (Suzanne Rose), a soldier of fortune, to spy on the Duchess' activities. In the end, each participant in this affair pays the highest price for their deceitful lifestyle...