Affair
An affair is a euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an illicit sexual, romantic and/or passionate attachment, usually for a limited duration. The term usually implies sexual impropriety, but it isn't necessarily the case.The euphemism is also applied to marital infidelity where one partner has an outside sexual relationship: a liaison[?]. It is sometimes accompanied by scandal.
Affairs in the political sense may be any kind of involvement in illicit business by any kind by public representatives, such as in the Watergate affair.
Famous Affairs
- Burrell affair
- The Affair of the diamond necklace
- Dreyfus affair
- Lavon affair
- Lillehammer affair
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Profumo Affair
- Sokal Affair
- The Makropulos Affair
See also: Sex scandal
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suddenly a horseman appeared beside him, who clove through a native's
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shout the dreaded name of Pango Dooni, scattered for their lives, though
gone ill for Cumner's Son, for this thief had him at fatal advantage, had
to Koongat Bridge. He stood up in his stirrups and cut down with his
of his foe as a woodsman splits a log half through, and grunts with the
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here," said he, "and hid also under my tongue. If you be from the Neck
sacred countersign.
By a little fire kindled in the road, the bodies of their foe beside
in the arm. Then they mounted again and rode towards the Neck of Baroob.
In silence they rode awhile, and at last the hillsman said: "If fathers
Dooni.
thousand.html">thousand men?"
"For a thousand men there are ten thousand eyes to see; I travel alone
ride to be in at the death of the men of your clan?"
"A man will ride for a face that he loves, even to the Dreadful Gates,"
where the Dakoon lay dying, and why he rode to Pango Dooni.
"It is fighting and fighting, naught but fighting," said Tang-a-Dahit
honour, and glory, and houses and cattle, but naught for love, and naught
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