Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quieter tragedies of unwanted pregnancies cannot be prevented by manipulating parietal hours. Unlike wild parties, such occasional incidents will happen in the Houses no matter what restriction, short of total elimination of parietal hours, is imposed, But the Deans are simply wrong in thinking that most Harvard students use their rooms during parietal hours for sexual intercourse. They...
...Johnson then issued a show-cause order, threatening Wallace with contempt. There ensued a hearing, after which Johnson dismissed the contempt citation-on the ground that Wallace had in fact "through devious methods assisted said agents in obtaining" the records. To this day, Wallace insists that it did not happen that way. "This Washington crowd had the federal judge back down," he protests. "When and if they say they didn't back down, they are integrating, scalwagging, carpetbagging liars...
Mainbocher is the master of the throwaway: a little tweed jacket that suddenly turns out to be lined with sable, a simple something buttoned up to the neck that unbuttons-if you just happen to feel like it-to reveal a splash of Schlumberger or Verdura in emeralds and diamonds. He was making the sleeveless sheath long before Jackie Kennedy made it a clich...
...Kennedy supporter and his name is Polish, a coincidence which is likely to make some Kennedy votes next year among the heavy Polish-American populations of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York." Asked about all this at his press conference, President Kennedy said blandly: "I think we just happen to be fortunate that his grandparents came from Poland...
...what will happen once the job is done? There is always some danger that an insect introduced to kill a pest may attack friendly insects or even humans. Berg does not believe that the marsh fly-either in its hungry larval stage or as a weak-winged grey or brown adult -poses any threat at all. Unlike the disease-spreading housefly, the sciomyzid avoids human company; its larva is hooked on snails to the exclusion of other food supplies. Says Berg: "Anything which is so highly specialized is not going to change its eating habits and start attacking babies...