Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the best way to show you how this difference works is to ask you to imagine for a moment that something very important has just happened in your city-so important that some far-away friends have asked you to tell them briefly just what really did happen...
...where you happen...
...there are two sides. Usually there is a contest. You never know what is going to happen and your side may win or it may lose. That is what makes war interesting. But in France there is no contest. The result is too certain...
...good Nazis know, the great German Army was betrayed and brought down by a collapsing home front. That could never happen this time; Führer Adolf Hitler had taken measures. Yet this week Hitler was face to face with another of the savage ironies of history: the great German Army was showing signs of caving in. Would the ironbound Nazi home front be betrayed and brought down in 1944 by a collapsing, demoralized Wehrmacht...
...soldier's bitter letter. To answer its charges-that workers in industry were making too much money, that civilians should be regimented since soldiers were, that people charged with hampering the war effort should be shot without trial-he went to see for himself what was happening throughout the U.S. The widening rift between civilians and servicemen troubled him. He believed that although "all sorts of injustices have flourished under [the U.S. system] . . . I don't think you'll deny that during the 168 years of the existence of the U.S. the ordinary run of men here...