Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When you have only a few hours to check up on news before you publish it, almost anything can happen. For example...
Could it really happen? There had never been a complete, swiftly paralyzing railroad strike in the U.S. Yet here it was, pounding down the main line at full throttle, brushing aside the minutes, highballing toward the seemingly inevitable collision...
...usual briskly benign manner, President Eric Johnston breezed into Atlantic City for the annual convention of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. One of the first things he did was to tell reporters: "It would be suicidal if price control was abolished immediately. . . . The worst thing that could happen to us would be for prices to spiral and for us to have a period of boom and bust." That afternoon, the Chamber gave its retiring president the back of its hand as it called for the end of all price control, except rent...
...moonrise since 1832-and probably well before that. When the eruption comes, says Dr. Jaggar, there is a good chance that a stream of smoking lava will writhe slowly down the north side of the mountain and fill the shallow harbor of Hilo, 23 miles away. If that should happen, the island of Hawaii, southernmost and largest of the Hawaiian group, would lose its last good port...
...first essential is to get out of one's head the modern and materialistic idea that the object of lying in bed is to sleep ... [it is] to enjoy oneself, and it is no more than a fortunate accident that good sleeping and waking happen to contribute to the main object. . . . Similarly, one's object in designing the . . . bedroom must be not ... to provide a place where . . . one may be able to sleep, but a place where one can enjoy oneself to the full...