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Word: happeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists might return to the government, and De Gaulle decide to take power by force. In this event, De Gaulle could count on most of the army and about half the police. This would be the worst thing that could happen, because De Gaulle would be in the position of the revolutionary. A section of French opinion would be hesitant and confused. Fighting might be protracted, but De Gaulle would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Awake | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...last great bastion of democracy, can consistently woo men like Franco. Senator Chan Gurney of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has the answer. The Soviet menace is of such magnitude, he says, that we should let bygones be bygones and accept every one we happen to find on the same side of our military fence. There are other reasons Mr. Gurney fails to mention. Spain is a Catholic country and there will be a large Catholic vote in the coming elections here. Another reason centers on the increasing pressure on behalf of Franco by our Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friend Franco | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

When things began to happen to our favorite spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Beautiful People | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...worst didn't have a chance to happen. The diathermic duo was in fourth place, six lengths behind such high-caliber swifties as Spy Song and Coaltown (a stablemate), when suddenly, as if stung by bees, Citation shot ahead. In one brief explosive burst he catapulted past the leaders. Said Arcaro later: "I never hit him. I never even clucked to him. All I did was look ahead and see that LeRoy Pierson, on Coaltown, was blocking the way. So I yelled 'Watch out, LeRoy!' It must have been the password...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Watch Out, LeRoy! | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Catholic settlement house in Harlem. Jones describes the work done throughout the world by the American Friends Service Committee-which he helped found. His conclusion about the committee: "It is a revelation on a small scale of what would happen on a great scale if ... the whole Church of Christ should be dedicated to the urgent business of rebuilding the world on the lines of the Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mystics Among Us | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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