Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great consolation as we leave is that nothing can happen to us as bad as what happened to the Harvard basketball quintet, which lost to every team it met, including, of course, the Big Blue Team from God's chosen six acres in New Haven...
...them that have had, more shall be given, and to them that have had very little, very little shall be given. . . . [The men overseas] know the bitter disillusionment of soldiers in the last war. . . . They know the hungry '30s. They are determined this is not going to happen to them. ... I tell this house if these men return to such conditions, their song will not be 'Land of Hope and Glory'; it may be the 'Red Flag...
...Viscount FitzAlan, added: "I have the greatest possible affection for the present holder of the high office of Pope and I should deprecate strongly any thing that might put him to any personal inconvenience. At the same time we can not be blind to the fact that whatever may happen to the existing holder of the Holy See we always get another, and that is not a thing to be ignored...
Upon that familiar premise, the delegates were united. Not until Vittorio Emanuele III abdicates can Italy get even a provisional democratic government representing the parties at the Bari Congress. If the Bari resolutions are to be more than words, two things must happen: 1) the U.S. and Britain must turn away from the King and Marshal Badoglio; 2) the apathetic Italian masses, not all of whom love the Allies, must be roused to an interest in democracy as intense as that of the men at Bari...
...been getting the headlines, Economist John T. Flynn has been burrowing deep into pre-fascist history for the story behind the headlines. His findings, as set forth in As We Go Marching, are a model of pamphleteering clarity. For onetime America-Firster Flynn strikes a deadly parallel between what happened in Italy and Germany and what is now happening in the U.S., proving-to his own satisfaction, at least-that it can happen here...