Word: happen
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...price of a new Volkswagen: $2,693) at a rate of 18,000 a month. Part of the explanation is an ingenious lottery called the consorcio, which gives Brazilians a gambler's chance to acquire a new car far sooner than they otherwise could-unless, of course, they happen to have enough ready cash to buy one outright...
...Arab masses may really be indifferent toward Israel, but they have been so hypnotized by propaganda that they no longer realize this. There is an aching need for one courageous Arab leader to call reality by its name and break the spell of illusion. But it can scarcely happen now. It probably cannot happen until the Arabs begin to feel "equal and different" toward the West, including Israel; until they find sources of pride and confirmation of manhood in causes other than holy war; until they begin to distinguish the difference between word and deed. That day seems remote...
STRATFORD, Conn.--What a whale of a tale is the story of Antigone! It was momentous and relevant 2500 years ago; it is momentous and relevant today; and, if civilization should happen to survive 2500 years more, it will doubtless be momentous and relevant still...
...record of predicting what's going to happen in China rates a grade of about D," he said...
...into some people," he says, "who think the U.S. is fighting China in Vietnam and that Ho Chi Minh is Japanese." He is convinced that by educating them, even scantly, in Vietnamese history, he has moved many "one step closer to a dove position." Complete conversions don't happen, but at the very least, Emonds concludes, "the hawks find out that the peacniks aren't all beatniks, dope fiends, or Commies...