Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional commitment to the story was clearly high. "In 1983, 241 Marines were murdered in Beirut by terrorists mounted by Iran," he says. "Most of them were 17 to 21 years old. They were our sons; they were our brothers. That burned in my memory. Then the incredible thing happened: over the dead bodies of those Marines, the United States of America sent our best missiles to Iranians who sponsored the killing. I never got that out of my head. How could that happen?" For a journalist, such fervid personal involvement might seem overwrought, not to say unprofessional. "People...
...great equalizer," said PhilipMcCraker '90, describing the way snow takes awaythe advantage of the more skilled team. "Anythingcan happen on a snowy...
...reading our Philip Roth. I won't level the charge of anti-Semitism here because I don't think it applies to your newspaper or any of its writers; still, I hope the Crimson does not soon diversify to include stereotypical/prejudicial attacks on other ethnic or religious groups who happen to be represented on its staff, for the result would surely be barbarous...
...Shop Boys mock the scene from the ideal perspective: deep inside. Their inventive synthesizer work makes music so stylized it becomes otherworldly. In the words of one admiring London critic, "They know how to use their computers." The Pet Shop Boys' tunes are inventive and danceable; It Couldn't Happen Here, on their new album Actually, was co-written with the formidable film composer Ennio Morricone. Their lyrics are jagged fragments of social observation and romantic speculation honed to a keen cutting edge. Two lines from Rent put it neatly: "I love you/ You pay my rent...
...imagine few developments during my years in office with which I will be prouder to be associated than this," Shulz said. "This was something we had hoped to see happen for a long time...