Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of mild fever here." The chant persisted, so Nehru dug in. "The bilingual state of Bombay will come into being on November 1, and there is no power on earth which can flout the decision of Parliament," said he. From the audience came the roar: "It will not happen!" "You want to bet?" shouted Nehru, his face taut...
...back to his speech. The well-organized students hooted him down. The Prime Minister abandoned his text. "You have no guts. This is fascism! Communism is its brother. Before all this, Gujarat is a small problem. This tendency is suicidal." The booing persisted. Nehru shouted: "You know what would happen if you did this in China? You know what happened in Poland recently? You want India to shape the way you have behaved? Juvenile delinquents!" Eighty-two minutes after he had started talking, Nehru gave up. It was the worst heckling he had met in nine years as leader...
...write his chatty fortnightly column. "En Route," from all points of the compass. "I was looking at myself the other day." said he. "I was wearing an English hat and shoes, a Peruvian shirt, an Italian tie, and a topcoat I bought in Hong Kong. That can only happen to you in the air age. I've got only one problem-a small one. I'm the only man in the U.S. who has to ask his wife for a passport." Mrs. Parrish, known professionally as Frances Knight, chief of the passport division at the State Department...
...right there his luck gave out. He met her at a ball; she was distant. He asked if he might take her home; she refused. He followed her anyway; she shut the door in his face. He crept into her boudoir; her lover came calling before anything could happen. In the church, in the park, at the theater-she escaped him every time, and every time she escaped him, the hunter was hotter for his sport. Until suddenly he knew that the chase was over; he had been caught. He was in love...
...coach can tell stories about how certain alumni "happen" to offer this same Touchdown Jones a very well-paying summer job for perhaps minding his son, if he should "Happen" to pick the right school. And the stories of alumni who tour the backwoods for players are numerous, just as they are about coaches giving visiting athletes special tours around the college athletic field...