Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just went about telling us, 'Don't be afraid. Why are you afraid? What can happen to you?'. . . And we realized with a tremendous lifting of the burden that was within us that there was really nothing to fear. .. Even the poor peasant straightened his back a little . . . Fear was something we had created . . . We have lost all fear of external aggression . . . unless of course we ourselves go to pieces. Then it would be our fault...
...speed of Giacobinid meteors is rather accurately known: 23 kilometers (14.3 miles) per second. Working theoretically, Whipple figured out what would happen to a very small particle hitting the thin top of the atmosphere at this speed. He decided that if the particle were small enough, about 4 microns (.000156 in.) in diameter, the heat generated by its friction with the air would be carried away (by radiation and other effects) without heating the particle. The "critical size" that he calculated theoretically was close to the actual size of Landsberg's particles. This is strong evidence, said Whipple, that...
...cars in every garage and a swimming pool in every back yard--that's the prediction of Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, who says it may happen in 30 years. The economist's forecasts are printed in next month's Atlantic, in the feature story...
...sitting in the living room at home," said Anna Thompson, "when a statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly swayed and fell. Nothing but one arm was broken. I told my husband, "That's a sign. Something wonderful is going to happen about our boy' . . . I'm sure my prayers have been answered...
...long as 40 years and in at least two cases four generations of a family have taken their business to La Flamme's. It is this informal, one-big-happy-family atmosphere which brings people back and which prompts old grads to revisit La Flamme's whenever they happen to be around Boston...