Word: happen
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Only conscious or unconscious racists claim that Germans carry a hereditary taint. But all examinations and self-examinations of Germany must sooner or later lead to the legitimate questions: How did Hitler happen? How could Nazism seize a civilized country? Despite all the words expended on the subject, the phenomenon essentially remains a mystery. But part of the answer had to do with national identity. Though Hitler behaved like a nationalist possessed. Germany's sense of nationhood was always a fragile and insecure state of mind. In 1871, Bismarck belatedly forged German unity under Prussian hegemony from the anachronism...
...Master Plan. Through his world of Van Goghs and vegetables, Simon, at 58, moves always with an "anything happen?" frenzy and a vigor that both irritates and impresses those around him. Even Aide Jack Clumeck says: "I cannot imagine spending seven days a week with this fellow. After a threeor four-day trip with him, I have to take a few days off. He is just that intense and probing." As a man of a reflective nature, however, Norton Simon knows that neither activity?nor acquisitiveness?are ends in themselves. "He is not interested in leaving a huge fortune," says...
...free and independent press' arduously 'digging out' information 'without fear or favor' over the enraged shrieks of a monolithic Government. In support of that myth, prizes are awarded every year to the diminishing handful of journalists, usually from small towns, who do happen to dig up new information, usually of no consequence...
Throughout Maine they had been touting The Fight as the most exciting thing to happen in the state since the Aroos-took Treaty. They were wrong...
...understand it by an internal, mathematical reasoning, ou've got it or you haven't." What distinguishes the identical Neo-Spanish languages from each other? "It's an ineffable something... No rule can be given. You must have a flair for it, that's all." How, finally, does it happen that ordinary people are able to communicate at all, since each speaks his own language? "It's simply one of the inexplicable peculiarities of the coarse empiricism of the masses...a paradox, a nonsense, one of the aberrations of human nature, it's instinct...