Word: affair
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Despite an admittedly lackluster first half, the Crimson hung with last season's fourth-place Ivy finishers for almost 45 minutes, very nearly replicating its 0-0 affair with Central Connecticut State earlier in the week...
Thomas Jefferson: One of the most revered of the Founding Fathers, writer of the Declaration of Independence, immortalized in statues around the country, Jefferson had at least one documented extramarital affair, with speculation about others. But hey, I'm sure he told the truth to his family and the public, right...
John F. Kennedy '40: Known to have had not one but by some accounts several affairs while in the White House, Kennedy's affair with Marilyn Monroe would be analogous to Clinton having an affair with Madonna today...
...this time, of course, Clinton was winding down his affair with Lewinsky -- who had been transferred to the Pentagon in April, and was to have no more sexual relations with Clinton for the rest of 1996. It's not much of a stretch to imagine Monica picking up a newspaper in June, seeing the photo of Mondale jogging with Clinton and reading more than she should have into the suggestive headlines. Mondale's national profile was rising; she had already done a photo shoot for Vogue (she would do another in November 1997, just before visiting the White House...
...cover all the angles. And so Mondale ended up contributing a single word to the Starr report: "correctly" -- as in "Ms. Lewinsky correctly surmised that the President was meeting with Ms. Mondale." Was Starr trying to make the proverbial, subtle-as-a-brick inference of a Clinton-Mondale affair? That's certainly the implication of footnote 739 -- Lewinsky's jealous comment to Tripp -- which isn't even referenced in the text. Still, her presence in the report has given rise to something Mondale is very used to by now -- a lot of gossip. "We knew there was some rumor back...