Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominated George Allen to RFC, and George weathered a Senate committee's scrutiny. But Funnyman George hardly added luster to the Administration. And when bumbling Jake Vardaman, whom the President had named to the Federal Reserve Board, was called before the Senate, God only knew what would happen...
...there the problem only began. Who would furnish a police system, public utilities, schools and health departments? What kind of taxes, if any, would UNO have to pay on the land? What would happen if a UNO delegate wanted to get divorced, or take out a hunting license...
...Beleaguered City is a grim reminder to Americans of what can happen when even a peace-loving people finds its inner conflicts irrepressible...
...uproar failed to disturb the caretaker at Westchester County's exclusive Blind Brook Country Club. "Nothing will happen to this club," he predicted. "The members will be inviting those UNO fellows over to play golf and everything will be all right...
...settled when English geophysicists suggested that polar icecaps might be blasted away entirely and, since the glaciers are tag-end relics of an all-but-ended ice age, the icecap would in all probability never reform. Some years ago an Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would be shifted; violent quakes would rack the earth as the Antarctic was relieved of ten quadrillion tons...