Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evidence. "Since in politics almost anything can happen from day to day, it would not necessarily be impossible for Senator Goldwater to beat Lyndon Johnson in November," said Scranton above the Electra's drone...
Lyndon Johnson is quite fond of asking White House guests if they happen to have any criticism of his Administration. Whether the guests are Republican or Democratic, the criticisms are few and far between. But whenever one comes, Lyndon is likely to lower his head and allow 'as how: "Maybe you're right. Maybe, for the good of the country, I shouldn't even run for President this year...
What would happen to the solar system if half of the universe disappeared? From Newton to Einstein, most experts have agreed that nothing much would happen except that the sky would have fewer stars. But now British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle says that the sun would shine 100 times brighter and burn the earth to a crisp...
Discussing the period after the civil rights bill first reached the Senate, Dirksen recalls that "We sort of let the thing simmer and jell, waiting to see what would happen. We knew that we could expect a freshet of long speeches. We knew that for about 30 days nothing would happen...
...happen to believe in commencement ceremonies," confessed University of Kentucky President John Oswald, generously, as he gave the commencement speech at Indiana's DePauw University. If commencement speeches do have value, it must-to judge from their customary content-be that of good advice. Last week, graduates got good advice by the chapelful, by the audi-toriumful, by the stadiumful...