Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what's this about traditional Catholics being "peasants" and uneducated? I happen to be a college graduate, but I'd rather be a humble peasant than a vainglorious "do-it-yourself" theologian...
...kind to be printed in the Soviet Union-entitled The 1036 Days of President Kennedy, borrowing heavily from Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen, but mostly picturing the late President in a struggle with "monopoly capital." In Chicago and California, two symposia of psychiatrists and other scholars examined why assassinations happen-and how they might be avoided...
...ashore with the fifth wave of Marines to hit the beach, has long been saddened by the realization that the island's name no longer evokes an instant, horrified response. "A whole generation," he said, "has matured without knowledge of a battle the like of which had never happened before, and in all probability will never happen again." A former editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now a freelance journalist, Sherrod returned to Tarawa with Shoup, who, as a colonel, had commanded the invasion...
...Haught, 27 years a miner and brother-in-law of one of the missing men, complained that the mine was "filled with gas" and "something was bound to happen." Tony Boyle, president of the United Mine Workers lo cal, demurred. "This happens to be one of the better companies as far as safety is concerned," he said. "I share the grief. But as long as we mine coal, there is always this inherent danger of explosion." For relatives of the missing miners, huddled in their parked pickup trucks or on folding chairs in the grimy company store, that was scant...
...dreamy, as if he were writing verses for a Valentine's Day card. But when inexpicable laughter came from the audience his face flushed the way it had in the rehearsals when he snapped at us for not pushing our buzzers quickly enough or for inquiring what would happen if the buzzers didn't work...