Word: occuring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Times readers were thus reassured. They could feel certain such un-Timesy doings, would not occur again...
Sigrid Undset, 61-year-old Nobel Prizewinner from Norway, declared that the thing about the U.S. that astonished her most was its women's clubs. "It would never occur to a European woman," said she, "to have lunch with a lot of other women, and not a male in sight. I must say I prefer mixed company...
...that idea did occur to a young research geneticist named Carl Lindegren at St. Louis' Washington University. He thought of developing yeast in a variety of flavors resembling staple food tastes. He and Mrs. Lindegren began to crossbreed yeast cells...
...though satisfied that no further conniving would occur, the British added that "the forces united under Mihailovich have now denounced the Quisling Chetniks, who long claimed to form part of the Mihailovich movement and under this cover accepted military help from the Axis in order to fight against the Partisans. Mihailovich forces are now playing a gallant and honorable part in the joint fight...
...poised over the typewriter with word baited fingers about to race (did I say race or erase) over the key-board to bring to the readers of this column a few seeds of humor which, I pray, may blossom into a smile or perhaps a laugh. If this should occur to but one reader, my journalistic effort will not be in vain...