Word: occured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want our own liberties safeguarded, we must help to safeguard the liberties of others. This cannot occur when personal convenience comes before consideration, as it did in class today...
...England's planes may make as many as 18 departures a day. Result: even if the weather is benign and the engines work fine, the routine delays of ten or 15 minutes that occur at each stop can make a plane one or even two hours late by day's end. Many travelers consider it no small victory if they and their luggage arrive at the same destination at the same time. In some cases, when a plane is fully loaded, the airline may simply keep the bags at the airport and send them out on the next...
...very often, the most memorable moments occur not in big-name headline confrontations, but when chance and circumstance conspire to transform some obscure small-print battle into a struggle of Good and Evil...
...institutional accounts, decided to increase its stock holdings by at least 25% because it was fearful of missing the market altogether. Explains Research Director John Groome: "We may be premature, but we are going to be there when the market explodes on the upside." That is widely expected to occur when inflation, interest rates and the dollar show signs of moving in the right direction. As Christopher Johnson of Lloyds Bank in Britain says of Wall Street's future: "There is a boom market out there, but not for a few more months...
...enduring years of hard-earned obscurity. A growing army of high school and college readers began proclaiming him a deep thinker, at about the same time that critics started cuffing him for being a shallow artist. Both judgments were wrong. Vonnegut has never written a thought that could not occur to a sporadically meditative teenager, nor has he pretended to; those who are impressed by the profundity of a shrug ("So it goes") have probably found the guru they deserve. At the same time, Vonnegut is one of the few truly original and distinctive stylists to emerge in the past...