Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...published portraits of reclusive author J.D. Salinger, an ex-lover reveals that he locked his manuscripts in a safe, obsessed about food (and vomiting), strongly believed writers should not become famous, and loved TV sitcoms -- especially those involving Mayberry and the Mertzes. Author Joyce Maynard had a nine-month affair with Salinger 26 years ago, when he was 53 and she was 18. In her book "At Home in the World," to be published by St. Martin's Press, she provides a look at the reclusive author of the iconic 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," about the disillusioned...
Damage A politician who has an affair with his son's fiance...
Betrayal A literary agent having an affair with his best friend's wife...
...French A gentleman having an affair with a tainted Lieutenant's Woman woman...
...positive," said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) "then the next question is, will the President submit to giving samples so they can match the DNAs if they are matchable?" Test results notwithstanding, Hatch led the chorus of calls for Clinton to make a televised mea culpa on the Lewinsky affair and even offered to "be there to try to help him if he will." Even assuming he has something to repent, however, Clinton is far more likely to gamble on widespread public exhaustion with the case. "There's no appetite for impeachment either in Congress or the country," TIME deputy...