Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday afternoon there was a scrimmage, and, considering the fact that this was the eighth day of practice, it was quite a show. People still weren't too sure of things, but most assignments were carried out, most of the players seemed to know what was supposed to happen, and the potentialities of the squad were apparent...
...such agonies are not enough, he has to pay for it. As our boy comes out of his coma the lewdly grinning villain, a bona fide member of Barbers local hands him the bill, the boy faints. It shouldn't happen to a Freshman...
Something to wonder about--how does it happen that the 1st Platoon, Co. A, always reaps a reward on their field trips: this time it was photographs, clips, elastic bands, ice cream, soda and the like ... all from Dennison Company??? Yet, we of the 2nd Platoon would have looked a trifle silly marching away from Hood with an inflated life raft...
WORKING MEN AND WOMEN AT HOME-You'are a majority! Multiply your forces by organizing. Form fighting groups at the enterprises, in the villages, in the labor camps, in the universities, wherever you happen to be. Refuse to obey Hitler. Do not allow yourselves to be used as accomplices in the continuation of the war. Fight with all means available in conformity with your position in the state and economic life...
Between October 1940 (when the novel begins) and Pearl Harbor (when it ends), only ordinary things happen to Jeffrey. Madge, his socialite wife, constantly complains that he never tells her anything (she usually fails to see the point of what he does tell her). He dallies for a few months in the Hollywood home of an actress, an old friend, and learns that he cannot write a play. His elder son, Jim, quits Harvard to join the army and marry a girl Madge does not approve. But on these bare bones Marquand has molded the flesh of Jeffrey Wilson...