Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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powers. But the next year, against F.D.R. Jr., he racked up the biggest overall vote (2,590,631) in the entire U.S. Beating Mayor Wagner for the Senate in 1956, Javits won by 458,774 votes, but lost New York City by 442,278. He never let that happen again...
Just what might happen, and what, if anything, it might signify, nobody really knows. But from Denmark to the Dardanelles, the citizens and comrades of Europe were waiting with fascination as France's Charles de Gaulle flew off for his confrontation with the leaders of Russia...
...Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is 30 years old, and has never known the security of a permanent conductor. Not that nobody will have it. The players just happen to be finicky, preferring to draw on an international pool of guest conductors until Mr. Right comes along. This has not always been easy. Beyond the customary growing pains, the orchestra has also had to weather the ravages of three wars, offering visiting maestros such inducements as "the largest and most luxurious air-raid shelter in the Near East, with excellent acoustics." Leonard Bernstein conducted one concert during an attack by Egyptian bombers...
...combined "National Football League" of 28 teams in 27 cities, divided into two 14-team conferences, each with two seven-team divisions. The reason for all that division? "Imagine," sighs an N.F.L. official, "how it would feel to finish last out of 28 teams. The worst that can happen this way is seventh out of seven...
...book's slight remaining plot teases the reader into wondering not "What will happen next?" but "What is really happening now?" What is happening is that Percy is using his plot as a witty excuse for exploring the wilder woes and wiles of Southern Negro servants, Northern liberal busybodies, professional religionists, disenchanted humanists ("Being geniuses of the orgasm is far more demanding than Calvinism"), and, most entertainingly of all, the subtle differences in outlook between the North and South...