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Word: happen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, "about the possibility that we're going to have a change of this kind." Later, in a mood of introspection, the woman whom the Russians have dubbed "the Iron Lady" summed herself up by saying: "I am what I am-it's the whole personality. I happen to be a woman. I have no experience of the alternative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Iron Lady vs. Sunny Jim | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Thalidomide case will at least increase the pressure on Parliament to strengthen the right of free speech. But there are some characteristically British obstacles in the way of real reform. One is that Parliament is loath to give up its traditional supremacy over the courts, which would happen if judges were allowed to declare laws unconstitutional. Another is the sheer slowness of change in Britain. But after his success at Strasbourg, Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans promised to do his best to speed it along. If the Sunday Times, closed since Nov. 30 in a dispute with its printers, ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Scandal Too Long Concealed | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Helen Caldicott, author of Nuclear Madness and an anti-nuclear activist). One-millionth of a gram of plutonium constitutes a carcinogen dose. That's just one of the dangers when reactors operate "safely." Since at Three Mile Island, the public has learned that far more dangerous accidents will happen, and the anti-nuclear movement has been swelling...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Mushrooming Movement | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...well, wed British Davis Cup Player John Lloyd in a home-town candlelight ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. The 24-year-old queen of the base lines sounded blushingly unprofessional. Said the woman who has won Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four times: "This is only going to happen once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 30, 1979 | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...happen? I hope his suffering was small...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Is There Anybody Here? | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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