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Word: happening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crusaders his only 34 per cent from the floor. More than anything, the zone requires a hustling team to make it work. Last year after a few disheartening setbacks early in the season. Harvard stopped bustling and stopped playing good defensive basket ball. Hopefully, that won't happen this season...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Varsity Five Meets Northeastern In Quest for Third Straight Win | 12/7/1965 | See Source »

...things happen to Harvard wrestling teams, things that don't appear in pre-season plans. Last year, things like Howie Durfee's case of pneumonia, defeat by one point at the hands of Franklin and Marshall, or a loss to a weakened Cornell team that should have been beaten all added up to a mediocre 5-5 record and third place in the Ivy League...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Matmen May Be Title-Bound If... | 11/30/1965 | See Source »

...politics, the latest scandal; to lure him off to a café, the opera, a dinner party, an assignation. Carlos resists, but not very vigorously. In a few months, he finds himself living the life of a Latin playboy and wondering a bit anxiously if anything serious will ever happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Agony in Affluence | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...What happens is what usually happens to a man who sits around and waits for things to happen: the wrong thing. One day Carlos sees a woman on the street, and is instantly smitten with the sort of grand passion that is possible only to the passive. He makes her his mistress, and is about to make her his wife when he discovers that the lady is his long-lost sister. Here at last is the romantic disaster for which Carlos has been secretly hoping, the excuse that will justify his failure to stand up and fight like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Agony in Affluence | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...realities, her feelings are largely visionary. "I mean," she said, "we give billions for a dubious defense and billions more for the moon but almost nothing for the world we have now, which is the only one we have, isn't' it? Of course a lot of disturbing things happen with foreign aid, but you don't scrap a whole program when one rocket blows...

Author: By Darcy Pinkerton, | Title: Lady Jackson | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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