Word: occur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Berlin Bureau warned: "Strikes are almost certain to occur and Social-Democratic and Catholic unionists may stop Anglo-American bullets on the picket lines if trouble starts. If some trigger-happy Tommies or G.I.s begin shooting, Germany's all-important working class center (members of the Socialist and Christian Democratic Union parties) might be pushed right into the Communist lap, where they will be reassured to feel that they had the 'support of brother working class parties of the Cominform countries...
Fortunately CIO and AFL political action programs will work arm-in-arm in '48. But if the PCA-ADA division ever becomes institutionalized in the two sections of labor, a schism reaching into '50 and '52 will undoubtedly occur. Now is the time to search with determination for common ground. Philip Murray has demonstrated in the sessions at the Bradford this week that great leadership can find ways to unite divergent factions in a crucial hour. The Henry Wallaces and Chester Bowleses do not deserve a look until they too demonstrate this statesmanlike faculty...
These discomfitures occur when organizational headquarters from mimeograph to addressograph end up in the president's room--or when a theater group orders its sets delivered to Rindge Tech Auditorium. Henry Lee Higginson described what had been missing until November of 1899 at a mass meeting then celebrating the Union's inaugural: "A Harvard student needs and has the right to every advantage which the government of the University can give. Neither books, nor lectures, nor games can replace the benefits arising from free intercourse with all his companions." It is worth sweating out Lamont's construction for the promise...
...Presidential statement on the world food crisis will occur within the next few days, according to the White House yesterday...
...bridge rail. Chinese Air Force Corpsmen Wong Shou-pen and Ke Fating did not seem to understand the greeting. Suddenly Corporal Aldrich cried, "Ding ho!" Seizing Wong and Ke by the legs, he dumped them backward into the deep and muddy stream below. The Americans laughed; it did not occur to them that neither Chinese could swim...