Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right, now, the elaborate nets of the age confine the team's activities as effectively as a fishing not over a school of mackeral. What will happen when the squad breaks out into the great outdoors can only be guessed...
...armed with a battered Winchester, confronts the man who shot his brother in the back. The most feared desperado of the Old West glares a vengeful glare at his quavering victim and snarls in deadly tones: "I could shoot you, Bob Ford. But I won't. You see, I happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin to his fate worse than death...
...public, however, was learning to believe that such things did happen, sometimes in the best of families...
...back our land. Give us the arms-and we will drive the Russians from Berlin before they can even lace their boots!" Loud though it rings, the voice of Jilka is not yet speaking for Germany, nor even for that nationalism which is resurgent. That could happen if the agony of today's intellectual confusion lasts many years more...
...peak, in 1890, there were 1,100. Compulsory segregation of leprosy patients at Kalaupapa is, said Governor Stainback, "an expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance and unreasonable fear," since the disease is not highly infectious. Stainback did not say what would happen to the patients if the colony is abolished. Best guess was that they would be sent to the Kalihi receiving station on the island of Oahu, held until doctors found out whether it would be safe to release them. While he was on the subject, Hawaii's governor asked that...