Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer. He reads to be entertained and, incidentally, to widen his vision of the world in which he lives. If a writer takes him into the presence of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin, it would never occur to him to require legal proof that such an experience ever did happen to any one man in the course of one year...
...were driving into Austria, Socialist Sage Dr. Karl Renner, one of the country's few surviving elder statesmen, found himself in Gloggnitz, a small town 40 miles from Vienna. The Red Army entered the town, and all Easter Sunday and Monday, Dr. Renner waited for something interesting to happen. Nothing did. Bored, Renner set out on Tuesday for a stroll along Gloggnitz' Main Street. Relates Renner with massive calm: "After a while, I came upon two men, one of whom knew a little Russian. He guided me to local Russian headquarters. Here I had an opportunity to explain...
...foreign reporters sent it out. Last month Miko (as U.S. newsmen call him) gave a U.S. traveler a message for his wife and son in Britain: "You may let them know that I do not have much hope of seeing them again. I do not know what can happen to me. I may be killed. I may be deported...
...same with its placards, on which the paint was hardly dry. "Down with Truman," they said. "Break with Truman . . . United Labor must defeat Truman. . . . Labor must organize a third party now." And on a sign in the background that ugly word "Fascism" appeared. "The hell it can't happen here," trumpeted the sign. "Fascism is here today...
Threat of Retaliation. Whether or not a world atomic agreement is reached, the authors round the globe. While some sciencetists think that an atomic-arms race is the most dreadful thing that could happen, The Absolute Weapon's text argues that it would be still more dreadful for only one nation to have bombs-for only then could they be used with impunity. "In the atomic age the threat of retaliation is probably the strongest single means of determent...