Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illegal. In Florida's Supreme Court, Willis Abram Briggs, who said he had fallen ill as a result of a fleabite, lost his fight for workmen's compensation because he had felt the flea bite him but had not actually seen it happen...
...felt at home. He is most amused by American women, especially "the middleaged, fat [ones] eating in cafeterias always a piece of bread, always smiling." Explains he in Steinbergian English: "The adventures for these women who are accustomed to quiet lives and banalities are so funny when things happen to them." Steinberg is somewhat more explicit about...
...Ickes, you and I have been speaking the same language for the past 20 years. ... I have about come to the conclusion that the man I want is Harold L. Ickes of Chicago." "It was just like that," says Author Ickes, "and it wouldn't happen again in a millennium." At this point Harold Ickes regretfully robs the reader of the book's real climax - an account of his years in the Administration. While still "a member of President Roosevelt's official family," he explains, "it isn't altogether my fault that I cannot season this...
...January 1846 universal peace seemed assured at last: Biela's comet was about to wipe out the world. But, as comet and Earth rushed toward the fatal conjunction, a watcher in the U.S. Naval Observatory saw the "ominous and inconceivable" happen-Biela's comet split in two. This lucky break permitted history to crowd into the balance of that amazing year a series .of events (of which the Mexican War and the westward migration are best known) that cause Historian Bernard DeVoto to believe that 1846 was the great divide in U.S. history. He has written this book...
When spring finally caught up with the several young men living in Winthrop House things began to happen in a small way. An d so now they have two mewling organizations butting their foetal heads against the stone wall of respectability...