Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a Turkish Government source: "Symptoms indicate that something abnormal might happen." Reports from Istanbul declared that 1,000,000 Turkish troops had been alerted and were "ready to fight in five minutes...
...almost bound to happen. Graves has been interested for years in the Imperial Roman period and the Near East into which Jesus Christ was born. Graves has written ingeniously learned novels about Rome (I, Claudius), Byzantium (Count Belisarius), the mythic age of Greece (Hercules, My Shipmate). His friend, the late great T. E. Lawrence, who spent the best years of his life between the Nile and the Promised Land, once amused himself by mapping the probable route of the Israelites in the Sinai desert. Graves's latest job is in the same line but not so modest...
...more than an elaborately contrived but not penetrating character study, with the East Coast hurricanes of 1938 and 1944 as background. The hurricanes blow an assortment of people into Miss Leckton's little world of servants, silverware and unearned income. She resents the intrusion, especially if the intruders happen to be Jews...
...figure this is the time when you people at home are getting restless. Now during the following two or three minutes you can get up, walk around, twist the dial, see if there's a better program on CBS, go in and look at the baby. Nothing will happen while you're gone...
Regional Directors of WAA all over the country braced themselves for the storm. It came. In a blistering letter General Littlejohn said that mismanaged sales, like the one at Holabird, had better not happen again. Chances are they...