Word: happens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human warmth--can survive the pressures of the Presidency. Can we be led by a man who smiles like a zombie and whose idea of beauty is a replica of the Presidential Seal embroidered by his daughter? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, we must hope for something wonderful to happen. After all, wouldn't it be nice if just once we could see our absurdly serious President slip on a banana peel and land flat...
...cash (passengers must use tokens or take scrip in change). Some athletic events in public high schools have been canceled or played unannounced because crowds have gone on the rampage at earlier games. "A lot of us-and I was one-kept saying that it couldn't happen here," says Mrs. Tom Wicker, wife of the New York Times columnist. "But it did, and we had to eat our words...
Chalmers stressed that the two men were chosen for the job because of their qualifications. Pilkington and Binford "will be tutors, who happen to be black," he said. Both of the future tutors lived in Winthrop House as undergraduates...
Nothing in this book was written with any intention of enshrining the author or building a mystique about him. But that is precisely what will happen...
...good to be true, and I couldn't believe it had happened. By the time I got back to Peking--this all happened in Nanking--I found the Japanese had invaded in strength and all that sort of thing was over. Something like it could happen again given the right government set-up. The Chinese could be very flexible indeed, as flexible as the Japanese have been...