Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going home. I'm causing trouble, crowding my son and daughter-in-law, and I'd rather die than cause trouble." A few months later the neglected cancer had spread uncontrollably, and she died. Says Mrs. Edna Wagner: "I told myself that this couldn't happen any more...
...bound to happen sometime during the Christmas recess. Some parent, uncle, neighbor of friend in a worried voice, is going to ask just about every undergraduate: "Say, what's up with those Reds at your College?" His exact wording will vary with the care with which he reads the papers, but the attitude will be the same: honest concern over what the papers call the "mess" at Harvard, and the same kind of concern he felt last fall about the "mess" in Washington...
Soon alarming things began to happen in Salem Village. In the spring of 1692, many of the regular members of Tituba's audience developed pronounced symptoms of hysteria. Their actions can doubtless be easily explained by modern psychiatry. But to the Puritans of Salem, indeed to any seventeenth century man, these were puzzling and frightening phenomena. The most plausible explanation seemed to be that the children had been bewitched. After all, everyone know the power of the Devil and no one doubted the existence of witches. Does not the Bible say: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live...
...temperature, humidity and wind velocity. They consult the precedents like judges reaching back for past decisions. Sometimes they take a deep breath and predict warm, sunny weather-and get rain and snow instead. When the mess is being cleaned up, the amateur weather prophets claim they knew what would happen all along: they felt it in their rheumatism...
...Dave McDonald, U.S. Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless said last week: "Earlier in this century, labor fought an all-out war to establish the right of American workers to organize and to bargain collectively . . . That war ended more than 20 years ago, and labor won it decisively . . . I happen to think that labor's victory in that cause was a fine thing for America...