Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just beyond the outskirts of the Brooklyn community known as Flatbush-but geographically in a section called Crown Heights -there happen to be a few acres of ground called Ebbets Field. Undoubtedly, certain sport-minded residents are interested in what goes on there. But there is a widespread impression that not only Flatbush but all of Brooklyn is merely an extension of that ball park. TIME is one of the worst offenders in disseminating that humiliating propaganda...
...rest of the impedimenta involved in this latest production of theirs. To help secure such a huge investment, almost as large a sum of cash has been lavished upon a publicity campaign second in magnitude only to the big. "Due in the Sun" build-up. If you happen to be an admirer of W. Somerset Maugham you may think it was worth all this effort, but if you're not, it will probably just add up to an awfully long three hours...
...This need not happen," Meyer told the veterans. "Separately we will be ignored. Together we have a fighting chance...
...Latin American political events can any longer be unimportant to Americans-especially if they happen in Colombia. Colombia's 1,200-mile coastline faces both the Atlantic and the Pacific approaches of the Panama Canal. Its swamps and jungles cover potentially great (but unestimated) pools of petroleum, vital in modern war. Hence any stirring in Colombia's dense political underbrush is peculiarly significant...
Saskatchewan is socialism's only beachhead in North America. Most Canadians have watched the province closely as a preview of the least that would happen should Canada ever go socialist. What were the chances...