Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a reporter asked them what would happen if two American flyers landed in Russia, they beamed and frankly declared: "The Russians would make their stay happy and make big propaganda around them." At one of their first stops in Richmond-the John Marshall Hotel-they announced that they were "hungry as dogs" and gobbled up free steak, vegetables and cream pie with unabashed enthusiasm...
Athens had long suspected that something was going to happen to headstrong Markos. Nearly a year ago, government intelligence officers got hold of a letter purported to have been written by Markos to Zachariades, in which he criticized not only the Balkan satellites but Moscow itself...
...well as distance counts in a ski jump, Record-Smasher Kongsgaard (whose landings were shaky) finished third, after two fellow Norwegians, in the Seattle Ski Club tournament. He took that in stride along with his new record. Said Sverre Kongsgaard: "I made a good jump. It may never happen again...
...Father, let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen . . . Give us the courage . . . to stand for something, lest we fall for anything . . . Amen...
...delivery rooms, so the women would know what to expect. Doctors and nurses avoided the words "labor pains," and spoke of "contractions." During delivery, the mother may, if she likes, watch the process in a mirror; she is always told just what is going on, just what will happen next, and is assured that it is all normal. One patient, who later had a baby while unconscious, wrote regretfully: "When I regained conscious ness and was told that I had a son, I remember feeling cheated, having to be informed just as if I hadn't been present...