Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam, Hanoi had unexpected help. In a carelessly phrased comment during an appearance in Maine, Hubert Humphrey said that the conferees had "now" agreed to admit representatives of the Viet Cong and the Saigon regime to the negotiations. At some point, that is going to happen, if the talks are to continue; but it has not happened yet, and Humphrey's gaffe sent tremors through Saigon...
Things were to happen to Lyndon Johnson and the nation, but he could not know it then. He could only look forward to eight frustrating years of physical proximity to and spiritual exile from the seat of power. He made the best of it, preparing for 1972, and meanwhile he built on his own legend, the good...
...listen to who they are if you wonder what will happen next. A black man testifying at the City Council hearings after the April riot said it: "This is my feeling. I am frustrated, I am angry...
...catch what happens to time in Desolation Row. He presents a rambling view of the half real, half surreal things famous characters from books and fairy tales are doing. The tremendous feel for the immediacy of what happens Dylan gives us in the chronological one-after-another present tense. But actually the whole story is a Dylan-modified version of a letter he read "yesterday." "All these people that you mention. Yes I know them they're quite lame. I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name." Dylan tells his correspondent that it's too difficult...
...forced to by the jury (crowd). The lightning bolt setting up the Drifter's escape is Christ rising on the third day to heaven. And by putting the story in a contemporary setting he's telling the people with a Bible in the desk, who think "it can't happen here," that it could and they would probably be the ones to do it (kill Jesus, or his equivalent) as soon as they got the chance...