Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon: "The names of wars, like war slogans and war songs, are not made, they are born. Something may happen at a moment's notice which will give us the name. Until then we can't create one artificially...
...finished the job when we were there, you wouldn't be going now." Said the son: "You had your April the sixth; we've got our December the seventh. . . . This time we're going to fix it so this thing can't ever happen again...
...Since wages cannot be frozen under present law, what will happen to a business whose labor costs rise before a new law is passed and labor prices frozen (as they must soon be, if a universal price ceiling is to continue...
...brush industry heard a WPB-man liken them to the quick & the dead: "We thought we could supply you with nylon. . . . Three days later . . . there was no supply for us. There isn't a substitute material that we know of that that cannot happen...
...ambulance drivers with the French Army, who got caught in the wreckage when France fell. It is a bestseller in England. U.S. readers may find some of its breeziness hard to take, but the book reflects matters greater than itself, contains some sharp observations about the crazy things that happen when a war goes to pieces, instead of going...