Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Society did not speculate about what else might happen in that event...
...bomb is dropped, a blast like a hundred hurricanes will whip the still lagoon. A pressure wave will strike across the Pacific, perhaps to be felt by sensitive instruments in San Francisco and Washington. An earth wave will shoot through the sea floor toward distant seismographs. What will happen to the ships in Bikini Lagoon, no one knows...
Congressmen took another look at an old, controversial question-should the rights of labor be allowed to transcend the rights of the public to electricity, fuel, transportation, telephones? There was nothing hypothetical about the problem-the U.S. had just seen what weird things happen when a big city is denied even one essential service for a short time...
...also think some miracle might happen, which you can't prevent, which might result in my not being tried...
...Standing before [Shamus O'Thames -pronounced O'Tems] naked except for a towel . . . was a strikingly beautiful white woman . . . glaring at him out of aqua marine blue eyes. . . . A cascade of golden blonde hair . . . fell over her face. . . . As will sometimes happen in moments of stress, his gaze focused . . . upon a . . . tiny mole, high up on her left breast. " Scram!" she cried, dashing a bucket of water over...