affair
nasty, dark, embarrassing or scandalous matter
Petrov Affair
cold war spy incident
Petticoat affair
19th-century U.S. presidential scandal
Floyd Landis doping case
2006 doping scandal
Black Saturday
violent demonstration of Mau movement
Leningrad Affair
series of criminal cases in the Soviet Union
Wells and Wellington affair
1980s publication of three articles and its aftermath
Affair of the Diamond Necklace
incident in 1785 at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving Marie Antoinette, implying that she participated in a crime to defraud the crown jewelers of the cost of a very expensive diamond necklace
Yemenite Children Affair
disappearance of thousands of children in 1950s Israel
Agrokomerc Affair
banking scandal in 1987 Yugoslavia
affair
secretive sexual and usually adulterous relationship between two people
Marconi scandal
British political scandal (1912–1913)
Tonkin Affair
1885 French political crisis during the Sino-French War
Menten Case
political affair in the Netherlands involving a Dutch Nazi