Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Keller later allowed the team to resume its schedule, he said his reaction to the incident was "horror and disgust, and some amount of despair that we, as academic institutions, have created the environment in which that can happen." Last week the university suspended two more players for breaking unspecified "team rules," forcing Interim Coach Jimmy Williams to recruit * three new players, including two from the football team, to fill in during a stunning 70-65 upset victory over Ohio State...
...Where in hell is the bird? Where is the bird?" shouted a space engineer at Cape Canaveral. "Oh, my God!" cried a teacher from the viewing stands nearby. "Don't let happen what I think just happened." Nancy Reagan, watching television in the White House family quarters, gasped similar words, "Oh, my God, no!" So too did William Graham, the acting administrator of NASA, who was watching in the office of a Congressman. "Oh, my God," he said...
...classmate, Kathy Gilbert, turned to him and asked, "Is that really where she was?" At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., scientists turned away from their remarkable new photographs of the distant planet Uranus and stared, stunned, at the telecast from Florida. "We all knew it could happen one day," said one, "but, God, who would have believed...
...explore the universe and discover its truths," he said. "They wished to serve, and they did--they served all of us." Addressing himself directly to the nation's schoolchildren who had been watching, Reagan added, "I know it's hard to understand that sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery, it's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons...
Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, archbishop of Manila and spiritual leader of the predominant Roman Catholic community, said, "Whatever may have happened today, and what will still happen, don't be afraid, don't be discouraged, keep calm, do not be provoked to violence...