Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...animal, not a car." On his second run through the measured mile, dockers caught Arfons at 559.179 m.p.h.-for an incredible average of 536.7 m.p.h. Now he began talking about doing 600 m.p.h., or even cracking the sound barrier-about 720 m.p.h. at Bonneville. Nobody knows what will happen if a car ever does go faster than sound, but Arfons is game...
...researchers at Ohio State University Hospitals wanted to know whether the body, in its responses to stress, distinguishes between anger and fear. And since it is known that the body's arousal mechanism depends heavily upon an outpouring of adrenalin, the researchers also wanted to know what would happen if the activity of the adrenal glands was suppressed...
...they would remember his prediction of three weeks ago, which directly contradicted his later insight. The public mind has no system and expects no system; it respects the infallibility of the man who predicts that something will happen...
...week Brooke was a smashing success. Tables of girls in the cafeteria giggled as he approached, and many men stood from their lunches to shake his hand. (When gubernatorial candidate Francis X. Bellotti put in a similar appearance in the cafeteria, the John Hancock officials observed, this did not happen.) In a typical interchange there, he approached a table of women and said, "I'm Ed Brooke. Sorry to disturb your lunch, but I just wanted to say hello." As he left the table, one woman turned to another and signed, "Such a nice smile. I think I'll voter...
...time will come when a student can support a conservative candidate at Harvard, without having his friends ask him if he is serious. More important, I hope the time will come when the nation's leading columnists know as much about conservatism as a conservative Harvard student. This will happen only when liberal intellectuals decide to spend some time trying to understand the views they are opposing...