Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hate and destroy we must have the courage to resist or we'll see it all-all that we have built, all that we hope to build, all of our dreams for freedom-all will be swept away on the flood of conquest. So, too, this shall not happen. We will stand in Viet...
...last week, Ronald Reagan, 54, was off and running for Governor of California. The boyishly handsome good guy in some twoscore movies (King's Row, Accidents Will Happen), and more lately the host and sometimes hero of TV's Death Valley Days, Reagan, away from the floodlights, has long been politically concerned. As president of the Screen Actors Guild in the late '40s, he helped block a Communist attempt to take over Hollywood's trade unions. In 1959, when 20th Century-Fox laid on a feast for the visiting Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Reagan refused...
...excellent example of shotgun justice," wrote Editor James Neal of Hamilton County's Noblesville (pop. 7,600) Daily Ledger. "If the past provides a good example, what will happen is that some kindly little old lady will spend the night in jail for driving too slow while some mad motorist charged with manslaughter will stall his trial right out of court...
...real test approached last week, the months of calm gave way to hours of apprehension. So much could go haywire in such a complex operation, so much could happen to delicate instruments during such a long journey through the hazards of space. JPL statisticians had already calculated that there was only a 17% chance of getting photographs. To be sure, the JPL crew knew that the mission had already produced significant scientific results, but they also realized that only a set of pictures would mean real success. "It's a failure without the pictures," said John Casani...
Then, last fall, the man who had flown 159 missions in World War II and Korea and filled in as a test pilot in between discovered the truth of the statistic that most accidents happen in the home. While he was hanging up a mirror in his bathroom, a throwrug slid out from under Glenn and threw his head against the bathtub. The hairline crack in his skull incapacitated his sense of balance for about nine months and probably cost him the title of United States Senator From Ohio...