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Word: happen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be a terrible thing for me to do anything else but write. They have said, 'You have it--it's bound to come'--but not once has anyone given me advice on the simple matter of keeping the breath of life in my body until the miracle does happen...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: George Pierce Baker: Prism for Genius | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...about to happen just the same. The Teamsters, having been forewarned that they would be tossed out of the parent federation if Hoffa were elected president (TIME, Oct. 14), proved, by electing Jimmy and his pals, that they had no intention of cleaning their stables. Hopeful that the enormous Teamster economic power would bluff the A.F.L.-C.I.O. into backing down, Hoffa & Co. planned to ask the A.F.L-C.I.O. Executive Council for a year's probation. There was not a chance. For sitting at the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. was 63-year-old George Meany, the stocky, onetime plumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Boot for Jimmy | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...Nothing will happen on Oct. 23," Kadar's spokesmen had predicted sternly. And on Oct. 23, under the menace of the nine Soviet divisions which ringed Budapest, nothing visible happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Behind the Bars | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...moviemakers are trying to say is that the stagecoach trade should hang onto its ten-gallon hats because the characters portrayed are actually intended to resemble real human beings. They don't. Oats is oats, and the only distinctive thing about this bin of them is that they happen to be of a right good grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...most frantic moments, someone decides that this is IT and is amened all around. That may happen in any kind of scene, though it's usually when Dean is whipping a car along through the night at 110 miles an hour or when there's a really good man playing the saxophone in a night club combo...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Beat Generation's Busy Dissipation | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

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