Word: happen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last January, after other officials had introduced their wives, he had presented Jack Lira, 24, as "my lover-my partner in life." Lira committed suicide three months ago in a state of depression. In the remarkable tape recording predicting that he might be killed, Milk urged that if it happened, other gays should "turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive so that hundreds will step forward, so that gay doctors will come out, gay lawyers, gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects. These are my strong requests, knowing that it could happen, hoping it doesn...
...costly federal regulation of business. The council that Carter appointed to do the job is stacked with regulators and headed by Douglas Costle, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Says a high Administration official: "As long as the regulators are regulating themselves, what can you expect? What would happen on the price side if you got the 50 biggest firms together and told them to run the price program...
Skeletons may happen to be a real hobby of someone on your list and you could get them a charming book entitled Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould, M.D. and Walter C. Pyle, M.D. Apparently this book discusses the lighter side of the profession everyone wants to get in on. Give a copy to your lab partner...
...does every year. So many things happen during reading period, it seems, because there is no one around to complain; if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, is there noise? Has the tree fallen...
Obviously, Santayana's words were a warning to us, the observers of this bizarre act: beware, it might happen again. Yet the quotation had meant something to the cultists as well. What "past" did they have in mind? Had Jones just picked up the quotation somewhere, and used it superficially? Or had he read Santayana in depth? And if he had, what perverse twistings of the intellect had brought him to his own conclusions...