Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House majority, including Speaker Sam Rayburn. "The Speaker asked me to get it out of the Rules Committee," says Virginian Smith. "I told him I wouldn't if I could help it. I'm against it." By his tactics last week, Smith made sure that nothing would happen until at least mid-April. If he can stall for another month after that, nearly everyone agrees that the bill will be lost in the rush of House business-and Alaska will have to wait months or years longer...
...Attacks on nonstrikers were wrong. Attacks on the homes of nonstrikers were wrong. Said Reuther: "I don't care who is responsible for violence. I don't care how severe the provocation. I will never attempt to justify it." But added he: "These things don't happen in a vacuum...
SMOKEY, 17, like most leaders of gangs, is alert, intelligent. "People don't understand," he says. "I would much rather not bop. It isn't any fun. You don't know what will happen. You may be killed. Or you may kill someone. Would you think it funny if I said that my real ambition was to become a policeman...
...Judge James G. Young ordered David sent to a boys' ranch for delinquent children. Robert, seemingly unperturbed after a good long cry, waited in the county jail. He was charged with murder. In the pleasant streets of Woodward, astonished grownups asked each other how such a thing could happen in their town...
...because, he said, the wrecked one had been bewitched. As an expert witness he brought along a witch doctor, who corroborated every word. To preserve his good will in the area, the harassed dealer had no recourse but to give the chief a new car-and wonder what would happen to the auto insurance market in Guin...