Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy," said Prince Metternich at the Congress of Vienna, "is only a geographical expression." At any peace conference, the people who happen to live in disputed areas are apt to be mere political and geographic symbols. Yet every hill and valley has its majorities and minorities, its dead heroes and live arguments, its habits, slogans and heartaches. From Trieste last week TIME Correspondent Robert Low cabled a close scrutiny of Venezia Giulia...
...what would happen when UNRRA, which now supplies 50% of Italy's food, goes out of business at the end of this year? De Gasperi asked LaGuardia to help him get a half billion dollar U.S. loan. The Little Flower's answer was typical: "I haven't got the money...
Astronomers believe that meteors are the debris of broken comets, and they shudder to think what would happen if a comet head itself, approaching at some 45 miles per second, were to crash into the earth. Astronomers' guesstimate of the chances: once in 100 million years (age of the earth: two billion years...
...nova-like flare-up of the sun might happen tomorrow." If it did, the sunny side of the earth would be burned to a crisp in half an hour, the oceans would boil away in live steam. Within a few days the world would be vapor...
That was strong talk in Hardy's own country county. The day after his paper came out, ten men called on Editor Hardy at his home. Unless he went down to the office and apologized, they said darkly, they could not be responsible for what might happen. He went along with them, found 100 angry men waiting outside the Times and decided to eat a bite of crow. He had not aimed that editorial at anybody in Upson County (it had voted for Carmichael), he said, and if he had hurt anybody's feelings, he was sorry...