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Word: happeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial, he suspected what he was in for. He had studied the Washington sedition case of 1944 when the harassments of lawyers for the defense had exhausted Judge Edward C. Eicher, who died during the case, causing a mistrial. The well-ordered Judge Medina vowed that wouldn't happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...effect, trying to push our boundaries into the present Soviet sphere of influence. Russia is presumably reluctant to see this happen, and therefore we can expect a far warmer cold war in the Balkans. The trouble with warm cold wars is that they eventually become plain hot wars...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

Joseph might conceivably have said. But sardonic Author Hesse, casting himself as the historian of the future, is not interested in making the history of the present as plain as all that. He leaves the reader to guess just what did happen to Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of the Game | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Harvard holds a very strong place in the center's early love, thanks to the anties of two students who one night a year ago last spring climbed the full 649 feet of the tower. But it won't happen again. WBZ has since had time to put up a big, prohibiting spike fence around the base...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

...served them best-a nationwide coal strike. A Hawkes Coal Co. tipple near Morgantown, Ky. was dynamited. In a lonely stretch of northwest Alabama, six brothers named Preskitt stocked their 150-ton-a-day strip mine with all the weapons they could find and waited grimly for something to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trouble in the Hill Country | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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