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Word: happening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just acting. It doesn't take much talent. Everybody has it. You just have to have the nerve. It's freedom. Onstage it's anarchy. That's the only time you can experience anarchy, I think, is onstage. That's total anarchy, because anything can happen. Anything...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: Riding High on the New Wave | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

...violence and political unrest that prevailed in Italy before the Fascist takeover in 1922. "Today, again, we have a determined minority waiting in the wings to exploit the first turbulence in our political, economic or social equilibrium," said Rome University Historian Rosario Romeo. "And if this were to happen, I would not vouch that civil strife could be avoided." However, others pointed out that in 1922 Italy was in a state of political anarchy, while the present government crisis, for all the chaos, is an example of the wobbly democratic process in action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Explosive Society | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

Joseph Grande, executive secretary of the Providence teachers' union. Teachers complain bitterly, too, that even if they do press charges, either school administrations do not support them or offenders get off with a reprimand in juvenile court. "These kids know that nothing is going to happen to them," says Paul Hauge, a teacher in Des Moines's Harding Junior High School who was slugged in the face earlier this year by a 200-lb. student. "They're juveniles. Suspension is merely a three-to ten-day vacation. Even if they're expelled, they're entitled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The ABCs of School Violence | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...They caught us while we were in exam period," said Stiles, winner of the pole vault with a leap of 16 feet. "But the team's impression of what's going to happen next week is different now," he added...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Sheehan and Stiles Break Barriers In Two-Mile and Pole Vault Events | 1/20/1978 | See Source »

...Says Goldberg: "By God, the Broncos went out and beat the hell out of them, then the next week, went and zipped Cleveland." A monochrome mania was born. It found voice when Running Back John Keyworth warbled a ditty into a bullet on the Denver charts: Make Those Miracles Happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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