Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smiting the wicked became a habit. During World War II, he wrote a letter warning Japanese Emperor Hirohito: "Surrender or be totally annihilated and become extinct." Three months later the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. As Father Divine put it: "Things just don't happen. Things happen just...
...Deliver us from white tolerance and understanding. Judging by TIME letters [Aug. 27], white people missed the point of the riots, which guarantees that they will happen again. For the first time, we have directed our hatred not at ourselves, but at the rightful objective, those who oppress us. For the first time, we have asserted our dignity, the dignity of rejecting what rejects us. If you still do not understand what the riots said, I will tell you. They said, "No, we do not love you"; they said, "Go to hell and take your slums with...
Lyndon's Turn. But when the showdown came, the committee was deadlocked once again, with Dodd and Javits both opposing Dirksen. "For Christ's sake, Tommy!" exploded Ev. "You said you'd give me your vote." A doublecross? "He just misunderstood me," said Dodd. "These things happen." As for promising committee action on the immigration bill, shrugged Dirksen, "that was just general conversation." In any case, Dirksen forced a one-week postponement of the immigration bill as a point of personal privilege, and Ev's allies talked darkly of demanding full-blown hearings that might well...
...What am I-some kind of criminal?" Mrs. Placente demanded. As scores of other gawking spectators rushed up, Mrs. Placente exploded: "You look like a bunch of lunatics. It should just happen to your wives. Better yet, it should happen to your mothers...
...Five's hectic attempt to trot in the Beatles' cinematic footsteps. If they, in turn, are going to be followed by the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the other rock-a-pop groups with Beatle haircuts, this new vague may well be the most depressing thing to happen in darkened theaters since Follow-the-Bouncing-Ball...