Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic message: the U.S.. with perhaps a two-year clear superiority in striking power, is rapidly losing its lead over the U.S.S.R. in the military race. "Unless present trends are reversed, the world balance of power will shift in favor of the Soviet bloc. If that should happen, we are not likely to be given another chance to remedy our failings. However, it is emphatically not too late if we are prepared to make the required big effort now and in the years ahead...
...soothing drink or drugs. In several cases that Dr. Meerloo has seen, he suspects that intense fear altered the subjects' metabolism completely. It may be, he suggests, that any kind of stress, including the fear of getting drunk and looking ridiculous, increases the danger that it will happen...
Conant said that the questions, "How did it happen? Why did it happen? and Will it happen again?" must be answered about the rise and reign of Hitler. After nothing the importance of the school-master in German life, Conant asked, "How did this phenomenon (Hitler) arise in such a highly educated nation...
...bottom." The management-training-school graduate, they point out, often faces a flock of frustrations on his return to work. "Lots of men feel that being sent to college is like being told they're going to be vice president," says one executive. "When it doesn't happen to them, they're disappointed." Others sulk if management does not readily accept their new ideas. Moreover, some companies suspect that the popularity of executive training, especially at universities, does not grow from corporate need at all, but is merely a long-delayed reaction to the idea that...
...tested Stalinon and allowed it to be marketed. One official coolly explained to the court: "We have only about two minutes on the average to examine each new product submitted." He claimed that "nothing was wrong" with the way Stalinon was approved and that "the same thing would happen again, and we would again issue the permit...