Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will go in order; not on a week's notice in mid-term. The army may move in, but not tomorrow or by the first of the year. If the plans have taken long, the complete execution will take longer, and it becomes ever clearer that nothing that can happen will, in the immediate future, radically after the undergraduate fate...
...Longa. Near Victorville, Calif., a cement truck demolished a sedan, left intact in the wreckage a pamphlet: Accidents Don't Happen...
...Sandstede fled, the Argentines were hopping mad. That was before Pearl Harbor, before their ships were sunk by Axis raiders, before they were formally accused by Sumner Welles of harboring Axis spies. The public at that time demanded the ousting of Nazi Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann. What might happen this time, if events followed a similar course, was anybody's guess. But it was clear that, as they already had in Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), the words of Sumner Welles were bearing overripe fruit in Argentina...
Learning the Hard Way. Some of Pearl Harbor was tragic fumbling that probably will not happen again. Example: the indifference of the lieutenant cited by last winter's Roberts report who disregarded a soldier's warning that planes were approaching from 130 miles away. The Flying Fortresses which landed at Pearl Harbor during the battle might have shot down every Jap attacker except for one thing: they had been sent from California innocent of ammunition...
...into a callous wife-beating artist. And then Sanders has the picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest in the South Sea Islands, where its violent motion is dulled, and it lapses into Maugham triteness, replete with tropical nights, women, and disease...