Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mentality. For the Guardian, Zorza writes what he likes, travels where he likes. He tries to avoid making predictions: "I attempt to explain what is happening rather than what is going to happen." Still, while explaining what is happening behind the Iron Curtain, Zorza has often found patterns foreshadowing later events. In November 1955, after studying the identities and associations of security officials purged in some trials in Tvilisi, Zorza concluded that onetime Premier Malenkov was in trouble-a full 16 months before he was relieved as Minister of Electric Power Stations and relegated to a job in remote Kazakhstan...
Riots these days are generally made, not born. On Cyprus, as in Algeria, they frequently happen just before the U.N. is about to take up the subject, or when someone is about to offer a new plan. Last week's riots on Cyprus, the worst in years on that embittered, embattled island, anticipated Britain's latest and long-delayed new offer...
...though these dates may be only signposts, they do include many things that did happen at Harvard, and not a few that will seem important when future Samuel Eliot Morisons take up their pens...
...this spirit last week that the President, at a critical time in French affairs, paid a press-conference tribute to Charles de Gaulle: "I will say this: I happen to be one of those people that liked him." And within hours of De Gaulle's accession, the White House put out a statement that wrapped up the President's devout hopes for the difficult days ahead: "We are gratified that the French crisis is now being resolved. General de Gaulle has assumed heavy responsibilities at a critical juncture in French history. We look forward to the continuation...
...major weapon of massive resistance is a state law empowering Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. to close any school where integration takes place. If an integrated school is kept open by local authorities anyhow-as might happen in tolerant Arlington, partly a suburb of Washington, D.C.-the state must shut off state financial aid. Another weapon: under so-called "Little Rock bills," any school patrolled by federal troops is closed automatically, and the Governor can close all other schools in the district...