Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least, this kind of reaction to a TIME story does not happen every week. When it does, however, we are happy to hear about it. Good luck to Producer Hornblow and his new picture...
Good Old George. But on such a day, few got seriously worked up about that matter. Irish tempers, in fact, had simmered down a good deal since the old days. It might even happen, now that they had got rid of the Black & Tans for good, that the Irish might get to be friends with the British. To his former subjects, the King sent a touching message. "I pray that every blessing may be with you today and in the future," said His Majesty. "God Save the King" sang Anne Maggie Crowley, a Dublin newsvendor, as she elbowed...
These people happen to be the friends or relatives of people who own cows. And cows eventually produce butter. The only trouble is that butter is considerably more expensive than oleo. Margarine, in turn, is normally an unpalatable white. So the butter people, who have been in business longer, have pressured in a mass of laws to keep the margarine industry from coloring its product, for they thought colored oleo could put a big hole in their business...
...body of Aime Mille, police inspector and one of his callers, whom he had killed. The doctor, to whom his mother had taken him from time to time, had called Claude sane enough. But the doctor had not foreseen, as Claude had, that dreadful things can happen...
...gliding down so quietly that Chuck could hear the clock ticking on the instrument panel. After each landing, Captain Jackie L. Ridley, Muroc flight test engineer, analyzed the records of the X-1's instruments. On the whole, they were encouraging. But no one was sure what would happen at the critical speed. The sonic wall was still unpierced; the big test still lay ahead. Chuck is reported to have remarked cheerfully: "I'll be back all right. In one piece, or a whole lot of little pieces...