Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seat just before the kick off, he will be hoping quietly that this will be the season when everything goes right. There are some new plays and players, a new coach, and most important of all, a new football year, in which, as the poet said, anything can happen...
...John A. Monks, in charge of the X-rays operations, said, "Apparently the film jammed and never even came out of the cylinder. Anyone who takes pictures knows how easily something like that can happen...
Generally happy about the new President, Ecuadorians waited patiently to see what would happen when his energy took hold of the nation's difficult economic problems. "I don't remember a time," said a veteran Quito newsman, "when I have seen such tranquillity in the country...
...various machinations of this Maxwell Anderson stage play are natural fodder for the generation of the quality called suspense, and Director John Huston has made the most of it. Yet Huston suspense has a unique moral overtone. At the same time people are chewing their nails wondering what will happen next, they are also wondering whether an essentially idealistic man can stay hopelessly pessimistic and inactive when he is brought face to face with the personification of evil. The peculiarity of it all is that Huston's moralizing does not impair a mote, mite, or job the entertainment value...
Back to Harvard. Nothing else will happen during your first term, except that one-hundred percent of you will go to the Yale game, ninety-one percent will go to most of the other games, ninety-one percent will go to cocktail parties every Saturday, ninety-one percent will get stewed every Saturday, ninety-one percent will get stewed six other days each week, and one percent will get straight A's. That leaves eight percent in the middle--they don't get straight A's and they also don't go to football games and parties. They will...