Word: happening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elected a circuit judge in 1953, he told the courthouse boys that he was going to run for Governor. Wallace was easily defeated in the Democratic runoff. His own judgment of the race was that he had been "out-segged" by his victorious rival, John Patterson. It would not happen again...
...group in a company seems to get all the fires--it will get a three-alarm, have all the fires for a few weeks and then get another three-alarm to end the cycle. He said that it probably was not statistically true but it always seemed to happen that...
That lesson may give the brigaiisii themselves pause. After hailing the execution of Moro as an act of "revolutionary justice." Renato Curcio, now on trial in Turin for armed insurrection, shouted to those assembled in the crowded courtroom last week: "Perhaps you have not understood what has happened in these days or what will happen in the coming months for Italy!" In fact, everyone understood only too well. In murdering a man dedicated to the principle that people who differ could find common cause. Moro's assassins had neither divided nor conquered but united the nation...
...quite disturbing," said George Brown, AMC's chief of vehicle safety and emissions. "But we have a positive attitude around here. We go out and fix things and try to see that they don't happen again...
Algeria was the last colonial war, although, as Author Horne observes, the situation that created it has certain parallels to Rhodesia and South Africa. Embittered by its recent defeat at Dien Bien Phu, the French army was determined not to let it happen in Algeria, and twice the war was nearly won. In 1957 the feared paratroopers of General Jacques Massu, using torture on a scale that shocked and sickened Frenchmen, destroyed the F.L.N. underground network during the Battle of Algiers. Two years later, punishing French raids shattered the morale of starving, undersupplied F.L.N. units in rural strongholds...