Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bandits,' but the question should be asked, 'Who are the bandits?' In any case, the people should not be mopped up. ... I have tried to call the attention of the authorities to the situation. The higher officials simply will not believe such things really happen...
George finally addressed the microphone in a shattered voice: "Folks, you'll have to excuse me. I can't remember the names of the other horses. That's Golden Man in front and I happen to own him and there's only the stretch between me and ten thousand dollars. Ride him, Jimmy! Let him roll...
...homespun musicians into a smoothly functioning symphony of 78 pieces. Among the treasures in his new scrapbook: U.S. citizenship, a letter from the maestro he had once trembled before in Milan. Wrote Toscanini, after hearing a Reiter broadcast: "A fine performance, which is a thing that does not happen very often even with famous orchestras and widely publicized conductors...
...staff (including five bodyguards), which had been assembled overnight with Stakhanovite speed. At first, it looked as though Molotov intended to play along with the American plan for a while, and later try to shift the onus of a possible failure on to the U.S. How that might happen was explained by one diplomat in Paris: "Ice cream would have a better chance of surviving in hell than a big credit plan which includes the Russians would have in the U.S. Congress...
...Choice of Virginias. It took a couple of days for the wire services to find out what had become of "Heiress" Virginia Hill, in whose house Bugsy was murdered. They finally reached her in Paris for her opinions. Sample: "It looks so bad to have a thing like that happen in your house." The United Press found her looking pretty chipper, with a new French boy friend and a pair of silver slippers. But Hearst's I.N.S. had her afloat in tears of grief. Both apparently neglected to ask Virginia how Bugsy happened to have a golden...