Word: liaison
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...that he had been telephoned by a woman calling herself Debbie, who later turned out to be Coghlan. She said a client of hers was telling people that she and Archer had "had an association." In later calls Coghlan said she was being hounded by reporters about the purported liaison. "In the belief that this woman genuinely wanted to be out of the way of the press, and realizing that any publicity of this kind would be extremely harmful to me," Archer said, he offered the money. "For that lack of judgment, and that alone, I have tendered my resignation...
...defense units shot down a Korean passenger plane, prompting Secretary of State George Shultz to throttle back his effort to re- engage the U.S.S.R. in quiet diplomacy. In March 1985 a Soviet soldier in East Germany shot and killed Major Arthur Nicholson, a member of a U.S. military liaison unit, and hawks in the Administration clamored for retaliation...
...exception. For the past four seasons, Britain's athletic affections have been wooed by television courtiers offering weekly 75-minute highlight films. The lords of commerce, N.F.L. Properties, have tried to sweeten the romance by selling $12 million worth of logo-emblazoned paraphernalia annually. Grass- roots support for the liaison was growing in the form of a new youthful obsession that has seen 110 amateur football teams formed in just three years...
...then, he would try that costume for a while. When he met Greta Garbo after World War II, he energetically seduced her. "I am so unexpectedly violent and have such unlicensed energy when called upon," he boasted to himself. "It baffles and intrigues and even shocks her." But the liaison was impossible. For one thing, there was her decor. "Don't you want to come and live in this apartment when we're married?" she asked. "No," he replied, looking "with horror at the pink lampshades...
...under the impression that equal opportunity meant only that the budget of the university had to be set so that men and women's sports programs would be of the same quality, says Joseph D. Bertagna '73, the executive director of the Harvard Varsity Club, which serves as a liaison between alumni and the college. Later, though, the courts ruled that it was not fair if donations from alumni allowed men to be training in distant lands while women couldn't afford to travel beyond the boundaries of the college...