Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is a great deal of criticism in the cloakrooms . . . There is a feeling that the Democratic forces are cracking the whip . . . There are some of us who happen to be prima donnas enough to object . . . We are not going to be treated as grade-school children by a strong schoolmaster who says, 'If you don't do what we tell you to do we are going to take you out into the woodshed...
From a cottage window among the grey ruins of Calais, blond, moody Claude Wissocq, 33, stared out into the fog and the darkness. He shivered, then whispered to his mother: "Dreadful things can happen in the fog. There is terror. And it comes in from the east. You've noticed that...
...reading Senator Tobey's report, I hope the public will realize that in this man the nation has a great crusader of the Don Quixote type. I just happen to be his current windmill...
...Morse sounded through the chamber: "I think a new de facto political party in America was founded on the floor of the Senate tonight . . . We shall see whether the future voting record in the Senate does not also indicate that in a large measure this coalition predicts what will happen to great pieces of social legislation in the 81st Congress...
...hottest congressional campaign in years moved into high gear last week, sober Colombians were dismayed to see the vicious old cycle repeating itself. In three months, the number of murders attributed to politics had risen to 40. Warned staid El Tiempo: "[Such] violence is the worst thing that can happen in a democratic country...