Word: occured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mullahs' demands, because Pakistan's Foreign Minister, able, bearded Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, is an Ahmadiya.* The Ahraris' mullahs demanded his removal. When the government refused, the mullahs began stirring up trouble, particularly in Lahore, where there are many Ahmadiyas. Craftily they timed their protest to occur before the new season's crops were harvested, when people were hungry...
...seems to be the opinion of many that Communism is rampant among the nation's teachers. If this is not true, there is nothing to fear, but an investigation to determine the truth of these allegations is an infringement on no one's rights. Did it never occur to our educators that these suspicions would be quickly dispelled if they would cooperate freely with the investigators and even invite them to their campuses? People with nothing to hide do not fear the spotlight . . . The supposed threat to academic freedom is a bogeyman . . . I am a college...
...Satellites, which are being mercilessly exploited, and have least cause to feel loyalty or affection, are the points where trouble may occur most quickly...
...Diamond had discovered, when Mrs. Kupferstein went to him a couple of years ago complaining of inability to conceive, that she had double reproductive organs, including two wombs. Minor surgery helped Mrs. Kupferstein to conceive, but Dr. Diamond expected that this would occur in only one womb, which would then crowd the other and make it inoperative. To his surprise, X rays of two developing fetuses showed that conception had occurred in both at about the same time...
Among these "unusual conditions," Menzel includes effects caused by aurora borealis, which occur when the air is ionized by radio-active particles coming to earth from explosions on the sun. Aside from atmospheric effects, he finds, "saucers" can be caused even by particles of dust on the observer's face...