Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overwhelming majority of the key reporters and pundits who write the day-to-day political stories for U.S. newspapers, radio and television are down-the-line liberal Democrats. To their professional credit, they did not permit their pro-Democratic bias to control their predictions of what would happen on Election Day. In general, the reporting-punditing press previewed the 1958 elections with considerable prescience and quite a lot of caution. They had the trend right, but in the main they were either unwilling to make specific forecasts or they underestimated the size of the Democratic sweep...
Born. To Peter Lawford, 35, London-born actor of films (It Should Happen to You) and TV (The Thin Man), and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 33, younger sister of Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy: a second daughter, third child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Victoria. Weight...
...democracy dead in Pakistan? "Of course not. Any country which does not have a Communist dictatorship has some form of democracy." What will happen to all the politicians thrown out of office by his coup? ''They should pray a little bit now and ask forgiveness from God for their sins." Pakistan's troubles, said Ayub Khan, arose from the clash of power between the President and the Prime Minister: "I say, after you have elected a man for a fixed period, it is much better to let him have a run instead of pulling his leg every...
...anything can happen in the Heps. Since the Heptagonals beginning in 1939, Harvard has had "lots of seconds," but never a winner. Some of the Crimson's strongest runners of past years have gone undefeated, only to lose to someone who happened to have a particularly strong day. And cross-country being the largely psychological sport that it is, the sight of ten or tweve pedigree runners from the Ivy League and the service academies is enough to unnerve the stoutest heart...
...state banquet at the palace, the Queen declared forthrightly: "Nothing can ever erase from the record certain deeds and events perpetrated in Europe within our memory. But their most important significance today is as a warning to the whole world of what can happen when democracy breaks down." After getting past this sticky need to separate Heuss from the Nazis, the Queen went on to recall her own and her husband's German ancestry...