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Word: happen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announce in late August the U.S.'s willingness to suspend nuclear tests for one year and try to work out a test-detection agreement with the Soviet Union. Before entering into test-ban negotiations, the U.S. needed to try for answers to some vital questions: What would happen when a nuclear explosion took place in a near-vacuum 300 miles above the earth's surface? What were the prospects of coping with oncoming enemy ballistic missiles by exploding nuclear warheads high above the earth? Could the Soviet Union use high-up explosions to cheat on a test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Voyage of Norton Sound | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...official of the Harvard Police commented, "We're certainly happy they didn't happen here." He added that an unwritten agreement, similar to the one in New Haven, exists between Harvard and the Cambridge police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Griswold Says Rioting Harms U.S. Education | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

...number of sculptures which happen to accompany the Picasso at the Museum of Fine Arts make an interesting comparison. There is a Lehmbruck which is rather more elegant, more refined. There is a Brancusi fish which is more restrained. But there is also a Calder stabile which pursues much the same goals as the Picasso--a forceful statement of dramatic black shapes--and next to it the Picasso looks far more complete, more resolved, more dignified...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Picasso: The Bathers | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

Over village after village in Nyasaland last week, planes of the Royal Rhodesian Air Force dropped leaflets with a special message for the women "What will happen," they asked, "when your husband is in prison? Where will you get your cloth when all the money is used to pay fines? Tell your men to stop being stupid." By "being stupid" the government meant joining the nationalist agitation for Nyasaland to secede from the British-inspired Central African Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: Being Stupid | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Spike" Canham had a hint of what might happen. A member of the chamber's board of directors for the past 5½ years, he had been asked in January whether he would accept a nomination for the post. Canham went back to Boston, searched his own mind, and huddled with colleagues for several days to determine whether accepting would compromise his integrity as an editor. He decided that it would not, gave the green light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Editor in the Chamber | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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