Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew what would happen when the Ship of State docked in this foreign port. No one knew what new commission, board or bureau the President would set up. But something was coming, something bigger than any commission, board or bureau, some vast new voyage to which the U. S. was already committed. Sailorman Roosevelt polished the brass...
...defense program in the belief that the abnormal defense effort could be superimposed lightly on the normal economy. Nelson disagreed from the beginning: he saw the program as a basic resurgence and reconstruction of the entire U. ,S. economy. He could see this clearly because he knew what would happen to U. S. business when 5,000,000 more pairs of shoes a year were suddenly ordered-he could see the hundreds of factories, the machine-tool plants, the nails, thread, leather, the railroad carloads of materials. He multiplied shoes by the 18,000-odd separate items he must...
...prevent voluntary self-censorship from making such a thing happen again (TIME, Feb. 17), able George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, had already laid his plans. Last week he completed a thoroughgoing overhaul of his press section, gave it a rank and standing it had never had before. As its new head he appointed one of his crack officers: natty, cosmopolitan Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson. Taken from command of the First Cavalry Division, West Pointer Richardson was sorry to leave his beloved horses, but he knew that the new job was more important. And with a Major General...
Last came Ethel's own moist, resonant voice: "If my years are to be lined up and counted off, I can think of no pleasanter way for it to happen. ... I have been used for so long to shuffling time back and forth in my make-up box, that actual time has lost its meaning. . . . Thank you all, for this treasure you have stored for me, in my particular heaven." She closed with the most famous line of her career, from her early play Sunday: "That's all there is-there isn't any more." Her voice...
...improvised measures of flamenco dances like the Soleares and Alegrias, never twice alike, Amaya's incredibly swift foot-stamps, finger-snappings and castanet-clacks are something to see and hear. "When I dance," says she, "my heart comes out of my mouth." Watchers can almost see it happen...