Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then one day, in a manner as yet undiscovered, the conditions for reproduction and fertilization occur. Male desert locusts come on the scene, and the quiet females suddenly forsake their love of solitude. Side by side with their new consorts, they swell the deadly locust swarm, trapped in the toils of their own mob psychology...
...Mack Sennett, King Vidor and Adolph Zukor are publishing reminiscences about the good old days, studios are remaking old hits (e.g., The Covered Wagon and Ben Hur), production schedules read like mail-order history (Demetrius and the Gladiators, Prince Valiant). But the most startling forays into the past occur at Hollywood's quainter eating and drinking places...
Briefly noting a table with five official Navy models that students try to identify, we moved on to a replica of a ship's bow standing about four feet high. Because many shipboard accidents occur when NROTC lubbers run afoul of the anchor chain, there is a complete anchor rigging to teach Harvard's sailors where not to stand when the anchor drops...
...should be noted," said the report, "that differences of Christian opinion usually occur in the realm of means rather than that of ends." Granted a desirable end, it is rare that one means of achieving it "can be singled out as the only 'Christian' way, and therefore most deserving of the support of the church"-whereas the literature of the council "has sometimes been definitely slanted in the direction of a particular political or economic program." In lobbying, if ever, the council "should not take a partisan position on matters on which the churches are not substantially united...
...Eisenhower has tried to be nice to the A. F. of L. and the rest of the unions, but if labor continues to irritate him there's a good chance that legislation unsympathetic to the unions will go through. The very thing they fear will begin to occur...