Word: happening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lucas had a prescription filled for neostigmine. That cost only 35?. Then the visiting doctor, who has no license to practice in California, got a staff physician to give Billy the injection. While Mrs. Lucas held Billy on her lap, the British doctor waited to see what would happen...
...sound fellow to carry it out while he himself is ostentatiously elsewhere. The murder goes off on schedule-except that it's the wife who, with a handy pair of scissors, dispatches the killer. This being only the middle of Act II, a lot more has to happen, and it is the measure of Playwright Knott's resourcefulness that villainy does not slump, nor chicanery deteriorate, nor sleuthing go to seed...
...life of a happy bachelor. His steady companions are three wise-looking Siamese cats, and he spends his time painting in his personal stratosphere. Sometimes it seems a lot more interesting than the world down below. Says he: "You might call my paintings landscapes of the mind. Anything can happen; there can be caves in space, or mountains in the sky, or stars on the ground. It's rather like playing God, myself...
...Should Stevenson and Dever carry the state, which is quite likely, then Kennedy may well be swept in on the Democratic ticket. But even then, Lodge has incalculable strength. Indeed he was elected to the Senate in 1936 when Roosevelt carried Massachusetts by an overwhelming majority. This could easily happen again. PHILIP M. CRONIN
...reason why such things happen, says the Bulletin, is that the McCarran Act makes consular officers the judges of scientific visitors. The consuls realize their inability to estimate a scientist's politics, but they also realize that a no is safer than a yes. If they let the wrong man in, he may be publicly denounced for some fleeting contact with Communism 20 or 30 years ago. Then the consul's career might be in danger. Thus, it is prudent to delay or refuse the visa...