Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bugs & Bandits. The Latin Americans, by their own behavior, were slowly disposing of an old Yankee prejudice: that South America is a land of bugs, bandits and bloody revolution. True, revolts still occur; Latin America had four major ones in 1945, but no U.S. citizen was killed in them. As for banditry, a U.S. ambassador to Mexico's reply to a worried prospective U.S. visitor was illuminating: "Completely safe [to come to Mexico] if you don't stop in Chicago." Common precautions against dysentery would circumvent "tourist tummy," but a hypersensitive fear of native foodstuffs ("Are the oranges...
...need only point out that in a development so new and so dangerous, in which many thousands of people were involved, only one fatal casualty occurred, aside from ordinary industrial accidents. As a matter of record, it has been stated officially that every possible consideration was given to all conceivable dangers of every step in the development and use of nuclear bombs and other chain reactions. This is true in any potentially hazardous research undertaking. Where calculated risks were taken, the extent of the worst conceivable damage that could occur was considered...
Vouchsafe, oh Lord, our God, that . . . what Thou hast promised would one day occur, may come to pass in our time, namely, that there be but one flock and one shepherd...
...apply for rooms in the six House--Dunster, as announced previously, will open for civilians in February--can be accommodated. The surplus will of necessity be quartered in Yard dormitories. Men assigned to the Yard will be allowed, Dean Hanford Stated, to shift to House rooms as vacancies occur...
...actually the application of the principles of Leninism to an entirely new situation. . . . The old Soviet plan may be said to have embraced concepts of an extensive revolution, or rather of a series of revolutions: extensive because it was expected that all over the globe irregular, chaotic explosions would occur. . . . What Stalin has done with the old concept has not been to abolish the revolutionary program: rather he has transformed the idea of an extensive revolution into one of an intensive revolution. Of course, the old system of capitalist economy and capitalist policy, he said, is everywhere ripe for destruction...