Word: happeners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Make something happen, something so new and beautiful, so ancient and obvious that our eyes are changed, becoming themselves, again...
Optimism and Gloom. The intelligence quandary would be easier for Nixon to unsnarl if each segment of Government argued with one voice-with, say, the State Department citing political considerations to counterpoint the military contentions of the Pentagon. That has been known to happen. In 1963, after listening to conflicting reports from a general and a diplomat who had just returned from a joint mission to Viet Nam, President Kennedy was moved to inquire: "Have you two gentlemen been in the same country...
...items like tear gas, the industry generally operates under its own self-imposed restraints. The police market, after all, is likely to boom for quite some time. "Even if the students really organize a peace movement instead of rioting," says Gunn of Bangor Punta, "it won't happen overnight...
...Slovak and Czech peoples, are both "realists" who have enjoyed more prominence under the Russians than they did under an independent Dubcek, and Premier Oldfich Cernik who quickly became adept at compromising with Moscow. There were rumors that Dubcek may soon be given a purely honorific job. That could happen after the federal-socialist state comes into being on Jan. 1, with separate Czech and Slovak governments under an umbrella government in Prague. At that time, the Russians may seek to impose several important personnel changes...
...Yeah," he said, "well, all kinds of things are going to happen to you that you have absolutely no way of controlling; but you can always say something that God didn't expect to hear...