Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which New England Telephone & Telegraph had requested only days after the commission ordered it to clear up a long list of "unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper and inadequate" practices. In a hearing that piled up 607 pages of testimony, the commission heard stories of billing errors, "false" busy signals (which occur when circuits are overloaded), baffling difficulties in making long-distance calls and unreasonable installation delays...
...executing shots that would make Newcombe writhe in desperation. On occasion, when he can be repeatedly kept out of position and be forced into making poor shots, Laver will lose a set. When this happens, he will grin at his opponent, implying that both players know it will not occur again. It usually doesn...
...arts, Harrington condemns classical tragedy. It is "one of the most pernicious notions ever to occur to mankind," he writes, because it "perpetuates the superstitious conviction that hubris must be punished." For Harrington, pride is everything. All forms of upmanship are ambitious strategies. By diminishing others around him, the individual moves a notch toward divinity himself...
...Sturgeon, Bradbury and all the rest, you can't help resenting Sun Ra a little. You think to yourself that this guy just said to himself, "Outer space, yeah, that's what's happening; I think I'll make some outer space music." The lyrics, when they occur and when you can make them out, are so simple and naive that you know nobody up there has any idea of the implications of special relativity. But that's just a purist hating to see his favorite fantasies commercialized. It's still a good sound; it tingles, it shrieks from some...
...constituents regard students who seize buildings and throw out administrators, many a Senator or representative has arisen in his chamber, delivered a scathing speech against SDS members, and perhaps introduced a bill which would -- as two such proposals provide -- withdraw all Federal aid from any campus where disorders occur, or from colleges which fail to carry out research deemed important to the national security. At the same time, three Congressional committees have held lengthy hearings on student unrest...