Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the danse macabre was replayed in slow motion on video tape, the baffled Boston fans could only mutter they'd been had. The buddy of Mr. 200 suspected it would happen: "When they ran out of Bud an hour before the fight, I knew it was all over. A sign, that's what it was, a sign." No one could believe that the ugly Liston had been felled by a love...
Naturally, something had to happen to show that the barn door is still not locked. The very next night, Housing Minister Richard Crossman, an acid critic of the Vassall affair, took some work with him to dinner at the West End's elegant Prunier's restaurant. After coffee, he absentmindedly left behind under the table 18 sheets stamped "Confidential." At a nearby table was a Conservative businessman, Geoffrey Blundell-Brown, who gleefully retrieved the papers, read them, then called the Daily Express to lambaste the lapse. With that, Blundell-Brown returned the documents. Crossman said he was "much...
...rhinoceroses looked out over a courtyard bathed in that red-gray light of late afternoon; Biff stood alone staring intently at the large note in his hand; the crowd in front of the main door of the Biology Labs grew suddenly silent and waited for something to happen...
...Foolish!" barked NASA Manned-Flight Director Robert Gilruth. "I think maybe this will not happen again." Growled NASA Director James Webb, "This was not an adequate performance by an astronaut." Gemini Pilots Virgil Grissom, 38, and John Young, 34, were on the carpet for something they did on their recent three-orbit mission. Gilruth and Webb told a congressional committee that the corned-beef-on-rye sandwich Young smuggled into their Molly Brown capsule and fed Grissom instead of the scientifically prepared flight diet was strictly unprogrammed. Mincing no words, the administrators decreed that henceforth "corned-beef-sandwich incidents" will...
...would hate most would be to be ignored." Said another: "If you want to attract attention, that's the way to do it. She's more Hollywood than Hollywood." Crist was unmoved: "The film companies think they are catering to a twelve-year-old mentality. I happen to think the American people are as smart...