Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Savadove deliberately delayed the route so that the crowd would be large and restless," says David Halberstam '55. "Something was likely to happen," Lukas remembers...
...When the events start rolling, students make sure [they] actually happen," says Gregg. Last year, he says he worked 20 hours a day for four to five days taking care of last-minute emergencies. Because it rained on Commencement day, and the scheduled shuttle buses were filled up or stuck in traffic, the students had to scramble to find enough vans to take 300 couples from the Class of 1936 back to their cars in the Business School parking...
...devoted fan and a merciless editor can each make harsh demands on a writer. For Novelist Paul Sheldon, Stephen King's protagonist, both are lumped together in Annie Wilkes, "a woman full of tornadoes waiting to happen." Trapped in Annie's house, Sheldon finds her a skilled practitioner with ax and carving knife who wants to cut his body as well as his prose. He is forced to write, just for her, another in his series featuring Misery Chastain, darling of supermarket bookracks. At first playing Scheherazade to her, he ends up playing Scheherazade to himself: he will...
...While the authorities debated what to do with him, Rust coolly signed autographs for the crowd, adding the words HAMBURG-MOSCOW. Shortly afterward he was taken away by police. Said a 24-year-old Muscovite who saw the pilot step from his craft: "People did not know what had happened. Something this unusual does not happen every...
While heterosexual transmission is possible, it does not happen easily. In a CDC study of spouses of AIDS patients who were infected by contaminated blood transfusions, researchers found that wives became infected 16% of the time and husbands only 5%. Some 10% of the people studied had more than 200 sexual contacts with an infected partner and still did not pick up the virus...