Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist WALTER LIPPMANN: AFTER all the official regrets and apologies have been received and accepted, the immediate question before us is how it happened that the Nixons were exposed to these outrages. It is manifest that the whole South American tour was misconceived, that it was planned by men who did not know what was the state of mind in the cities the Vice President was to visit. For what has happened should never have been allowed to happen and those who are responsible for the management of our relations with South America must answer to the charge of gross...
Aware that some G.O.P. Governors are among the reluctant -specifically those whose states happen to be among the net losers in such a swap -Eisenhower sent a message to the Governors' Conference in Miami Beach. "If a healthy functioning of all our political parts is to be maintained," he wrote, just about every citizen has to fight the "centripetal force" that accumulates power in Washington...
...polls to hold their primaries, Chavez let loose a final claim that New Mexico will get $261 million from the Defense Department in fiscal 1959,* twice the annual level when Chavez took over the Appropriations Subcommittee in 1955. "This increase," said Senator Chavez meaningfully, "didn't just happen...
...Canadian press and radio picked up the scent, and all Cobalt began getting into the act. "The man's an ass -a typical Prussian,'' growled Druggist Frederick Shaw. "What would happen if everybody came out and said just what they thought, like he does?" Last week Pastor Wipprecht defended himself before the school board, was reinstated on condition that he teach religion without mentioning sex. "If I am not to be allowed to teach the Seventh Commandment," he said, "I shall have to quit. And how I shall do that without using the word...
...shellfish, you know"). Anyway, things get worse before they get better, and in the end, Hope makes a desperate attempt to get the comedy off the ground. He grabs the dragrope of a passing helicopter. Very unfunny. In fact, the only funny things in the picture seem to happen when Hope has the help of his side man, France's Fernandel. They make a great team. Hope supplies what Fernandel lacks: English. And Fernandel supplies what Hope lacks: humor...