Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running hard for his party's presidential nomination in 1960, and that means that he must keep his name and face before the U.S. over a long pull. It does not mean that he would turn down the nomination in 1956, if it should happen to come...
...Glenview, Ill., a growing (pop. 10,000) suburb of Chicago, the letter from the new Citizens School Committee was not exactly a surprise, but it was alarming all the same. "There is a crisis in the Glenview schools," wrote the committee. "It is not something that is going to happen. It is here now." Unless the town took action, the schools would go on double shifts, and many children might not be able to get into a nearby school at all. "And this," said the committee, "is only the beginning...
...trodden upon by history and yet kept its independence. Darius, Alexander, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Babur all invaded it. In the 19th century the British Empire, following a northwesterly course, approached the Hindu Kush and southward-marching Russians. In the end, Britain and the Czars, fearful of what might happen if their armies met, agreed to keep Afghanistan as a buffer state...
...next un-Russian thing to happen was that Vyacheslav Molotov did exactly that. "The Soviet government expresses regret," said Molotov, after the more familiar slurs against "some representatives of the American command who obviously are not interested in the prevention of this sort of incident." Molotov then told Dulles that Russia would pay half the cost of the damaged plane, claiming that the Neptune was on the Russian side of the border but that "atmospheric conditions made possible an error." Responded John Foster Dulles: "It is gratifying that he expressed regret and at least indicated willingness to make some reparations...
What if Eisenhower does not run next year? Last week one California Republican wryly cracked that almost everyone in the state is happy and optimistic except G.O.P. leaders, who are worried to ulcers about what will happen if Ike steps out. Said a Democrat on Capitol Hill: "If Ike doesn't run in '56, it won't make any difference whom the Republicans nominate; the convention won't be over in time for the election." At times, the President frightens party leaders by acting as if he is determined to retire to his farm at Gettysburg...