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Word: affaires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonial Office, "to become in their ancient home 'Arabs of the Mosaic faith.' " To his old friend, Ormsby-Gore (the Colonial Secretary), he wrote that the Zionist policy of cooperation with Britain in Palestine had remained unilateral-"it was unrequited love." In 1939 the love affair came to a bitter end. The British government issued a White Paper which wiped out the Balfour Declaration and foreshadowed possible control of all of Palestine by the Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: With Psalms & Spades | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...have been aware that our love affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...first the action was an inter-dorm affair. Some 50 men were battling it out purely for sport but Sergeant Toomey sensed "inherent evil" and broke it up. Several stayed in the Yard however, and began to build a snow woman. A group of Cambridge high schoolers who were wandering through the Yard made what the Harvard men felt were "impolite advances" towards their work of art and after an exchange of opinions there was violence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nocturnal Brawl In Snow Shatters Stillness of Yard | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

Czerniawsky had a pale, dark-haired mistress named Renee Borni. Perhaps Mathilde was jealous. In any case, when the Gestapo pounced on the three of them in a frowsy little Montmartre hotel, Mathilde was more like a purring cat than a fighting tigress. Soon she was having an affair with a Gestapo corporal named Hugo Bleicher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: La Chatte | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Heller's motion also calls for a full statement of the minority opinion against Fisher's ousting, and permits Council members, who were pledged to secrecy at the meeting, to discuss the affair as soon as the Committee report is publicized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Votes to Publicize All Charges Against Fisher | 1/14/1949 | See Source »

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