Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just another Arkansan who appreciated your splendid comment [TIME, July 27] on our State. We happen to be the location where the Midwesterners have been coming duck hunting for years, also the home of the National Duck Calling Contest. Stuttgart is proud of its latest honor in being chosen as the site of a $9,000,000 air base...
...corporal.) It was a matter, simply, of getting used to an environment which is novel and robustly companionable, despite its hard work and its basic seriousness. Says Private Hargrove: "I seem to be adopting the philosophy of the old soldier: 'If it's going to happen, it's going to happen, so why worry about it?' If I sleep until too late to stand reveille, I know that the first sergeant is going to put me on K.P. Sunday. The Sunday K.P. is an unpleasant thought-for next Sunday. But why worry about...
Back at Angelmo, Roland Hayes, who has never been an agitator for Negro rights, reflected: "I am not bitter toward anyone and the humiliation is on the other side. I am only ashamed that this should happen in my native State. I love Georgia...
...swing from Mutual to NBC to Blue was one of the fastest double plays radio has seen. When it was announced last month (TIME, June 15) that Swing would go to NBC in September, two questions were raised: What time was available for him and what would happen to H. V. Kaltenborn? No time was available and nothing happened to H. V. Instead Swing was handed over to Blue...
...music was unmistakably bad. Even though the symphony had been begun last June when the Nazis started their drive and composed in odd moments snatched from volunteer fire-fighting in Leningrad during a terrible winter of hunger and constant siege, everybody expected and hoped for a miracle to happen. Human limitations being what they are, however, the miracle did not happen and the work of art failed entirely to measure up to the occasion...