The most violent of many such encounters, the affair further fueled the tensions and in June 1812 the U.S. declared war on Britain.
In fact, it was through a Saturday-afternoon television screening of the 1951 film version that I first encountered The Franchise Affair, as a child.
There is so much talk about the Cavern and how it works and what it means that Adie's nonvirtual encounters -- her affair with an old friend and fellow worker named Steve and their visit to an ailing college friend in Ohio -- begin to feel like hasty afterthoughts grafted on to a philosophical treatise.
(Indeed, this amounts to the Labour strategy for tomorrow night's encounter on foreign affairs: to shift the focus away from performance and on to policy, "where Gordon can be at his best", with David Cameron, rather than Nick Clegg, the chief target).
Or was the connection between Ivanov and Keeler a chance encounter which complicated the affair with Profumo?" The press had their suspicions but the Keeler-Profumo affair was unknown to the public until well after it was over.
Demis Volpi's Little Monsters charts a love affair from encounter to separation.
Their first legal encounter is a lowly affair, with both men representing themselves, and a judge dismissing them with exasperation.
The encounter turned into an affair of sorts, with Murray coming to Turing's house on several occasions, having dinner with him, and then spending the night.
I'm pretty sure it went no further, and there was no second encounter, certainly no ongoing affair — because he more than once complained, "I can't find a woman, none.
It was often tolerated, but, still, discretion was an issue — duelling at dawn was popular for reasons of secrecy, and, in the aftermath of an "affair" or "encounter," principals were known to flee for neighboring countries.
It was often tolerated, but, still, discretion was an issue duelling at dawn was popular for reasons of secrecy, and, in the aftermath of an "affair" or "encounter," principals were known to flee for neighboring countries.
