Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Childish Task. Whether or not Soviet authorities will permit him to go to Stockholm for the Nobel Prize or let him accept the prize money ($41,420), Pasternak has small fear of official reprisal ("I am an old man; the worst which could happen to me would be death"). Whatever happens, Pasternak's way will be lonely, upright, and full of that fatalistic fortitude of which he once wrote...
...turn. To come in second behind an Ascari or a Fangio is still a triumph, but to come in second behind an unknown beginner because his young reflexes are quicker or his inexperience pushes him to take unnecessary risks can be tough for an aging champ. It will not happen to me. I will never go near a race track again, not even as a spectator...
...today I am not smiling. Shivering in my cubicle of misery, hungering for the opulence of the life I once knew, I can only hope that younger, better men in coming generations will not fall as I did. But I am confident that such an unfortunate event will not happen, for the fine and critical eyes of our Housemasters are looking over the future of the young and unborn. It is in praise of our House-masters that I felt compelled to communicate my thought. Gavin Scott, 117 Kinnaird Street...
Mistakes Will Happen. Tanguy was herded into a sealed cattle car with a group of Jewish children bound for a German concentration camp. For 3½ days, under a broiling August sun. the railroad car remained unopened while the children wept, sickened, and gradually lost control of their natural functions. Tanguy kept up his courage by believing that it was all a "mistake," and that once the authorities found out that he was not Jewish they would send him back to his mother. The word "mistake" recurs through Del Castillo's book and picks up the same rhetorical power...
More space will be available when many of the administrative offices in Weld Hall are moved to their new location in the proposed Health Center. But, von Stade said, that will happen only in the "distant future," in about five years...