Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shwedagon Pagoda, my friend Tom and I were lucky enough to happen on a pwe, one of the Burmese religious festivals that go on all night and all day, held on various special occasions, like weddings. We stood at the door watching as two female dancers in elaborate face make-up and gold-embroidered longgyis danced to the rhythm of traditional wooden Burmese instruments. The dancers were encircled by small children at their feet and adults further back, all squatting on the floor...
Hector Estime, another cousin, was one of those who accused Desyr. Said he: "We want others to come forward. It's painful and many are still scared, but it must be done if we are to make certain that this sort of nightmare does not happen again...
...talent and energy and made something new. Boorstin looked at the gentle folks who came to the East Room to receive the new medal and mused on the special ingredients of creators. "The most important thing a government can do is foster the freedom in which the unexpected can happen," he said. Marian Anderson's voice rose from a humble church choir in Philadelphia. Frank Capra, an Italian immigrant, turned film into art when he made Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and You Can't Take It with...
Well, thank God that our hero fireman decided to retire to Nicholas, because without him Ernest probably wouldn't have been able to fight off the bad guys. They rebuild the bar and turn it into a resort called Club Paradise, where wacky things happen to our cast of journeyman comedians and comediennes. This includes almost the entire cast of the recently pathetically unfunny Saturday Night Live...
...hung around hoping to be noticed, a fortyish theater composer impulsively came up to his table. "You write good lyrics," said Frederick Loewe, who had heard Lerner's contributions to the club's Gambols. "Would you like to do a musical with me?" Lerner cockily replied, "Yes. I happen to have two weeks...