Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporter. "I don't want to lock the door against eventualities that I don't even understand or imagine," replied Cuomo, as if instructing a class of stubborn undergraduates. "I'm not God. If you have a crystal ball, if you can tell me what's going to happen, fine. But I can't." Asked directly whether he would pledge to serve a full four years as he promised last time, Cuomo was uncharacteristically brief. "No," he replied...
...explosives to "wipe out Cokeville," Young told Principal Max Excell that he wanted a whopping ransom of $2 million a hostage, as well as a talk with President Reagan. "Why Cokeville?" asked Excell. Replied Young: "Because it's a nice little Mormon town where people won't let anything happen to their kids...
...kill" seems to me to be a pretty practical way of keeping human society together. Similarly, "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother" appears to be a good practical means of sustaining communities. That separating Harvard from supporting an evil regime and benefiting from tyranny also may happen to make the ending of that regime easier does not really surprise...
...anyone ever just stood up and started yelling obscenities during an exam? What would happen? Would the police come and haul you away? Would they give everyone else in the room extra time...
...surprising. "I didn't see anything that was remarkable or enlightening," says George Cotliar, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times. Comments Karen Elliott House, foreign editor of the Wall Street Journal: "We are not in the business of spreading propaganda but in the business of analyzing why things happen and what they mean. I don't see (the interview) as a great journalistic coup...