Word: happening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What would happen, for instance, if delegates from all the Ivy League schools, Stanford, M.I.T. and the University of Chicago went down to the University of Pennsylvania, spent four days discussing common problems and possible solutions, agreed on principles of action, and went back home to work on these issues, while nobody really knew that a conference had occurred? Well, you would have the Little 11 conference, which took place February 22 through 25 in Philadelphia...
...University of Massachusetts--Boston professor who asked to remain anonymous has taken an intellectual view of the situation. "I believe in original sin," he said. "This country is greased on money; as long as it's a capitalist system this sort of thing will happen," he added...
...these light touches disappear too soon, and somewhere in the second half of the book we begin, guiltily, to skip whole paragraphs of that beautiful prose, wanting something, anything to happen...
...gasoline seller, have either cut refinery output or reduced dealers' delivery allocations; the cuts range from Shell's maximum of 8% to Phillips' much more drastic 30%. And the reductions could get worse. "After the second quarter, it's anybody's guess what will happen," says an Exxon spokesman. "It's a day-to-day situation...
...quite simply can never tell what will happen next in the emotion-charged atmosphere of an Easterns meet--witness Andy Saltzman's upset of Bobby Hackett and Harvard's wild finish in the 800 free relay last night. Or consider the unfortunate fact that Geoff Seelen banged his head on the starting block while pulling himself up for the start of the 100 backstroke after looking like a shoo-in for his first Eastern gold, and consequently had to settle for a silver...