Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German militarism. "I never minimize this possibility if Europe fails," said he last week. "If France refuses to accept reconciliation with her former enemy, how we would accept the effect of such a reversal I do not know . . . The whole population would be affected. We cannot say what would happen. But we have had experience in the past...
...camera takes travel-poster shots. In the end, Kirk's C.O. refuses to approve his marriage to the girl, and though Kirk fakes a marriage permit, he is picked up by MPs on the way to his wedding. Moviegoers, who have waited 108 minutes for something to happen, may be ready to follow poor Dany when she jumps in the Seine...
...lighting a Christmas tree. So, with nothing to report, the press has been using the end of the old year as an excuse to speculate on the events of the new. A thoroughgoing job of prediction would be suicidal, for if people knew what was going to happen in advance, news would be redundant. As a result, most predictions, whether slugged "Special 1954 Section" or "What You're In For in '54" are about as specific as an hour essay question in Humanities...
...relieve the frustrations caused by this journalistic gambit, we have decided to tell exactly what is going to happen in 1954, even though such divultions might expose us to suit by Newsweek and U.S. News for Breach of the Future...
Profit from Song. It does not happen any more now, because Mrs. Wagner organized an all-out effort by the Negro community to set up a 25-bed convalescent home where Anderson Hospital's Negro outpatients can stay at little or no cost. Last weekend a thousand rich Negro voices welled up in the Sam Houston Coliseum in the half-resigned, half-hopeful words of favorite spirituals and hymns. Children pantomimed angels and devils, flowers and animals, while a narrator boomed James Weldon Johnson's words in The Creation and Listen, Lord. With an audience...