Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to see what would happen in this country if such a case occurred. While millions of Roman Catholics in the U.S. have no choice but to go along with the Pope's indignation, it is a good argument against an R.C. for President...
...with a gun ("the fastest in the West") and a girl (Julie London), and pretty soon he starts to abuse them both. The girl he kisses, as she puts it, "like you paid money for the privilege." The gun he fires at anybody whose looks he doesn't happen to like. All this is mighty upsetting to Robert Taylor, the kid's big brother. "I wanted him straight," he sighs, "that's all. But he was rotten leather and he came apart." So in the end it's brother against brother, but as they say down...
...nine votes. Later, Johnson leaned across the aisle to whisper to Knowland: "Bill, we don't need to have a roll call on this. I've got you beat by three votes." He did, too. Says Lyndon Johnson: "I usually know what's going to happen within the first 15 or 20 minutes of the day." Johnson is proud of that fact, as he is proud of his Senate skills. He is, in fact, a proud man who was born in pride...
...week's end the "700" schools had enrolled 59 boys, eventually will build up to 150 each. As yet, no one knows for sure what will happen to the "700" schools. Both buildings are clearly inadequate. The city is talking of building four new "700" schools for boys, and perhaps another for girls. But, in time, most school officials believe that new "700" schools would fill up just as the "600s" did, and the job of educating New York's problem pupils would be as knotty as ever. "Either we get enough money to run the schools...
Novelist Wyndham well knows the first rule in writing a chiller-effective specters must be ectoplasmatter-of-fact-and so he takes the dullest, most ordinary village in England to populate with his monsters. Nothing much noteworthy has happened in Midwich since the Black Death. One day something very odd does happen: every living thing falls into a trance. All who pass through an invisible perimeter pass out. Traffic piles up. Some victims are hauled out by hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich...