Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to the incident in which the Crimson was awarded the ball after only two Bucknell downs, he said, "If the referee who made his call had gone through with his decision, trouble would have been avoided. It didn't have to happen...
Whether a soldier wore blue or grey during the Civil War, about the worst thing that could happen to him was to be taken prisoner. In Southern camps, 15 of every 100 Federals died; in the North, twelve out of every 100 Confederates died. But even in a day when most camps were shocking, the name of Andersonville most specifically spelled horror. Within this Georgia stockade, 100 miles south of Atlanta, as many as 127 men died in a single day, and during one three-month period, the total of dead exceeded the whole number of those on both sides...
...glory in being a j.v. Maybe some slither along in the mud of the practice field in anticipation of a greater glory next year on the varsity, but the others know that they have little chance of becoming varsity players, let alone varsity stars . . . it just doesn't happen very often...
...Hitler had other ideas. Despite the confidence of many Berlin scholars--including Einstein--that the Fascist rise to power in Italy "cannot happen here," Jaeger saw early that it was happening, and decided to leave the country. This he did by 1936, teaching first at the University of California, then the University of Chicago, and finally, in 1939, coming to Harvard as a University Professor...
Sullivan, longtime fee of the College's parking habits, said yesterday, "Wait till we (the Independents) get a majority and then I'll tell you what will happen...