Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working journalist is usually innately shy about being interviewed himself. When we turn the tables on him, some curious things are likely to happen. The reporter being interviewed may get edgy and commit the sin he hates most; ask to read, i.e., censor, the finished copy. Or he may insist on putting the best part of what he says "off the record." Or, a brilliant questioner himself, he may be struck dumb at being interviewed. By and large, however, most newsmen have the good grace to laugh at such inhibitions when our reporters point out the irony...
...when the newly formed McAuley Psychiatric Clinic in San Francisco's Roman Catholic St. Mary's Hospital sent out invitations to a forum combining priests and psychiatrists, the response was overwhelming. Close to 400 priests and doctors packed St. Mary's auditorium to see what would happen. What happened was that the two groups got along as though they were made for each other...
...went home an also-ran. Last week the pretty premedical student from Radcliffe College seemed to dare the same accident to happen again. Flip she did-to perfection. She whirled through all her other maneuvers with the same precise skill. For the second time in three years Tenley Albright, who kept on skating despite an attack of polio in 1946, took the title to the U.S. In second place: New York's Carol Heiss...
...summer of 1938, Columnist Walter Lippmann, brooding about the "mounting disorder in our Western society," began to put his concern into book form. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he laid aside his manuscript to see what was going to happen to the world. When he returned to his task after war's end, he found that "something had gone very wrong in the liberal democracies . . . They were unable to make peace and to restore order...
...Could Happen at Cornell...