Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book, expressed not a moment's regret that it has been published outside Russia. To a German reporter who saw him for a few moments after the Nobel announcement and the resulting political storm, Pasternak said: "I am sorry, I didn't want this to happen, all this noise . . . But I am glad I wrote this book." Months ago Pasternak had told friends: "Stockholm will never happen, since my government will never permit such an award to be given to me. This and much else is hard and sad. But it is these fatalities that give life weight...
...Visitors, by Mary McMinnies. Funny things happen to the diplomatic set in this not-too-fictional Iron Curtain country, with full value wrung out of every absurdity that Western folly and a heavy-handed dictatorship can help to generate...
...skeptical public waits to see whether anything will happen. The Shah is considered personally honest. The Queen Mother, Tajul-Moluk, and the Shah's twin sister, sinuous Princess Ashraf, are acknowledged to have great commercial acumen. When, last month, Princess Ashraf was caught by French customs officials as she left France with 800,000 francs in her handbag after declaring only 10,000, many wondered how this could happen to so wealthy a woman. Cracked an old Teheran hand: "Probably habit...
...gaudy, had John Wilkes provoked hisses or Edwin aroused huzzahs, had Shakespeare been spoken or even ranted well, a bad play might have proved a pleasant romp. But despite the dress-up and the makeup, there is virtually no make-believe. On an all-purpose set where anything could happen, almost nothing does. Even Shakespeare comes to resemble a string of clichés; even the madness of the Booths is doused by the madness of the enterprise...
...soon reinforced by smoke and dust particles from the hustling community's furnaces and fires. For almost a week, residents breathed the polluted air. By the time fresh winds came to the rescue, half of them were ill, 20 had died. "It could happen again," was the point that a handful of experts recently made clear on Pittsburgh's KDKA...