Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your first jump, with your basic fear of death. Even though in 102,000 jumps at the Orange Parachuting Center they've never had anyone killed, you have to be thinking you're about to die (or at least could die) in order to make sure it won't happen...
Death: Death needs little introduction. It rivals birth in its number of different levels of random causes. It can happen to you at any time, and stop the whole thing; there's nothing you can do about...
...BOGEY MAN, by George Plimpton. What happened to George as a bogus touring golf pro should not happen to a golf ball, but while absorbing his routine athletic humiliations, he manages again to write knowingly and entertainingly from inside a major sport...
...There are professors here who are thinking of the theories," he went on. "If people in charge of governments know the principles of why things happen, maybe we can make them happen to the benefit of our region...
...those instances when a newspaper story is so thoroughly sanitized that it fails to relate what really seemed to happen, the problem is not objectivity but ineptitude. What certainly is not called for is subjectivity, for that would be neither journalism nor literature, and very likely would end up maudlin drivel...