Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inquired also what would happen if he was late. That would result in about two with the cane. And what would happen if he threw an orange at the teacher or hit him between the eyes with a paper clip, as in New York or Tokyo? . . . 'That would be Monday night detention for three to five hours, plus six of the best, plus no more football or swimming for the rest of the term...
Unlike many of his colleagues, Cohen has no worries about the future, "I've got an Associate Professorship with a relatively small, if popular, department; and I am a non resident Tutor in Eliot House. A full Professorship? I don't think about such things. They just seem to happen...
...These are things we must learn from experience," Chang said. "But it is a sad experience--the kind we don't like to happen...
Without a Net. With this statement last week President Eisenhower recorded the entry of the U.S. into a new phase of its history. From the beginning, U.S. foreign policy was conducted with a kind of circus net under it: the worst that could happen did not include wholesale devastation of the country by an enemy. The British, controlling the seas, could blockade and raid the coast (as they did in the War of 1812), but distance prevented any European enemy from dreaming of forcing a decision on the U.S. by sending major forces to this country. As technology narrowed...
...manager went off to the station with the bail. The lieutenant returned to the busses. "This isn't going to happen again," he warned. "Or else you're all going to be locked up and you'll miss your crumby game." The manager and the representative band members returned to the busses. The worried drivers resumed their places. The motors churned, and the busses finally drove away...