Word: occured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raged, with varying degrees of intensity, for a number of years. But while theoreticians and government officials argued the pros and cons of different nuclear strategies, weapons technicians continued the job of programming the available warheads to strike targets in the U.S.S.R. if a nuclear was should ever occur...
...blooper-with follow-up corrections-including the Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Boston Globe and New York Post. The New York Times's Tom Wicker used the misquotation in the lead of his Tuesday column. Rued Wicker: "It didn't occur to me that the Washington Post would be wrong." As for the Post, Managing Editor Howard Simons had a sadly candid comment: "All of our failsafe systems just failed...
...outpouring of letters was something of a surprise to sleep researchers, because continually repeated dreams are rare. When they do occur, they generally mean that the individual is stuck with some emotional problem, most doctors agree. Says Dr. Julius Segal, a dream psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health: "Repeated dreams are generally attempts to come to terms with particularly intense emotional material: hostile situations with a spouse, problems with parents or an accident." Battle dreams are the most common and can plague ex-soldiers for years after every war. Frequently the veteran dreams that he is crouching...
...Gallup poll reports that 51% of the American people believe in UFOS. Even the fusty National Academy of Sciences was led recently to admit that contact with other civilizations "is no longer something beyond our dreams but a natural event in the history of mankind that will perhaps occur in the lifetime of many...
...acquire skills necessary for less wearying and higher paying jobs. In many families both parents have to work; this puts severe strains on the close-knit family. The youth faces difficult cultural conflicts. Many cannot overcome the handicap of language insufficiency to do well in school. Intense conflicts often occur between these youngsters and their parents, who hold a high regard for education. Those youths who do well and can assimilate easily find that their values conflict with their parents' conservative views...