Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herald Tribune's mountainous, tough-minded sports editor, Stanley Woodward, asked him what he meant by saying newsmen had no ethics. Said the Mayor: "The truth is I'm having press trouble. And I think I'm partly to blame. But a lot of things happen that get me mad. I can't seem to get out a statement that isn't all cut to pieces with interpolations and editorializing...
...much fresh food. They can stand the heat, the glare of the sun, the scarcity of beer and Coca-Cola. Unlike fighting men on islands in the western Pacific, they never see a woman-of any color. But what really annoys them is the itch for something, anything to happen. "I wouldn't mind sitting here under this gun, looking up at the sky day after day, if something would just come along sometimes," said an anti-aircraftsman after six months on an island. "If I could just glance around one day and see a lot of Jap planes...
Close call, Vag thought, aware that the immediate danger had passed. Mustn't let that sort of thing happen again--bad for morale. The friend that had suggested this to him had always been trustworthy on the subject of courses before. No human being could possibly pronounce the required sounds without a bad case of cleft palate, much less make sense of the designs Russians scribbled on paper and tried to pass off as an alphabet. Now a slim fellow over in another corner, with a thin, nervous voice, was speaking very fast--punctuating his talk with short, indrawn laughs...
...another thing Treasury officials shudder when they think of what would happen if an inflation scare started everyone spending all their money at once...
...contrast, the prison commander's nerves collapsed at not having prevented "an event which must never be allowed to happen." He saw himself demoted to his pre-Nazi destiny-a plumber's assistant. He went out to the space grimly known as the Dancing Ground and ordered nail-studded cross boards attached to the seven plane trees which grew there. As each fugitive was recaptured, he would be forced to stand strapped tightly to the nails...