Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans for spending almost $1.5 billion, down to the last round of machine-gun ammunition the Greeks would get. Then Bob Lovett, in another closed meeting, confronted John Taber and his Appropriations Committee members. Lovett showed them secret intelligence reports about Greece, emphasized his own fears of what would happen in Europe and the rest of the world if the U.S. should welch on its commitments...
...answer to the "Marshall approach," Rumania was being leeched of its last drops of democracy in preparation for a paper peace. A ratified treaty would mean withdrawal of the Red Army, and that might mean the downfall of Groza, the triumph of Maniu. To make sure that would not happen, Moscow's Andrei Vishinsky had ordered Groza: "Get your house in order...
...hero has sampled the conventional attitudes of Bohemia that he realizes their inadequacy and achieves absolution by embracing "the age of reason" (i.e., an understanding of his own self-dependence). Writhing in an existentialist trance, he proclaims the Sartrian gospel: "... It is by my agency that everything must happen." The author sums up: "Even if he let himself be carried off in helplessness and in despair ... he would have chosen his own damnation: he was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine. He could do what he liked, no one had the right...
...tested in the marketplace of political discussion, and the decision to be rendered at the polls. The very liberal groups that denied Smith a hearing should be the ones that are most conscious of the necessity for free speech for all--not just for those with whom they happen to agree--if change and progress is to be accomplished without violence. Yet their action is all the more deplorable since they are private organizations and not accountable for their conduct in any election...
...know there's a big temptation when you get a little white space to become deafened by the thunder of your own thoughts. I've seen it happen to a lot of guys, and I'm not saying it can't happen to me. . . . Nineteen columns out of 20 I expect to be peddling that ever-lovin' popcorn and doing my old soft shoe dance. But every so often, when I feel like hollering, I'm going to stand up on my hind legs and holler. I'm not saying my palaverings rate...