Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Meadows. I refuse to stand by and see it happen since it will be my sons who will be fighting and dying in "World...
...coal and grant that hot coals flying about the room might ignite the window shades and the books in the bookcase ["Witchery in North Dakota," TIME, April 24], but really, isn't it a bit preposterous to assume that the dictionary's molecules would coincidentally happen to go in the same di rection at the same time? Has Dr. Gamow figured the odds on such a double accident...
Eight Piper Cubs flew across German lines on Mt. Ceracoli. Over the target their pilots solemnly pushed out a few five-gallon tins of gasoline, circled to see what would happen. As they had reckoned, nothing much did. An enemy-held tree burst into brief flame, a pillar of smoke soared all of three feet into the air. The armada wheeled, made for home at 70 miles an hour, while bored Germans took desultory pot shots at them...
Isabel: "I thought I'd get him to come home with me and once I'd got him there, well, it was almost inevitable that the inevitable should happen...
...have written, incredibly harsh for Virginia Woolf. More characteristic is the mood of The Lady in the Looking-Glass, with its picture of a house in mid summer: "The room that afternoon was full of such shy creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals falling - things that never happen, so it seems, if someone is looking. . . . Since all the doors and windows were open in the heat, there was a perpetual sighing and ceasing sound, the voice of the transient and the perishing, it seemed, coming and going like human breath, while in the looking-glass things had ceased...