Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...racing.* The sport, explained Sordoni, with its emphasis on human endurance and mechanical speed, is "not compatible" with the A.A.A.'s day-to-day program of encouraging highway safety and careful driving. Other A.A.A. officials voiced yet another fear: should a major disaster, like that at Le Mans, occur at an A.A.A.-sponsored race, the organization might be legally liable for vast sums in damages...
...their error. When a reporter asked if she feared being arrested again, she replied confidently: "From the amount of scandal it caused through the rest of the world, I don't think they will do that again." Was she angry about the arrest? Oh no, she answered. "Injustices occur everywhere." If the State Department grants her a passport, said Journalist Strong, she expects to visit Red China as well as Russia...
...Troilus and Cressida) with "She is a pearl,/ Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships." But Hoffman also lays down scores of absurdities which parallel nothing but his own wishful thinking, e.g., "Here is my dagger" (Marlowe); "There is my dagger" (Shakespeare). Nor does it ever occur to him that certain elemental ideas have struck almost every poet who ever lived, e.g., that rain may be described as Heaven's weeping, that fast-beating hearts are like hammer blows, that lovers long before the Elizabethan Age had decided that even the sunniest day was a pain...
...what his instruments tell him even though this contradicts what his balance system tells him). Scientists are not yet clear what may happen without any touch or sight reference-for example, to a man inside a free-floating space ship, says Major Simons, "indications are that severe disorientation can occur." Nevertheless, he concludes, accumulating evidence indicates that man can learn to get used to the sense of floating or falling, and master his reactions sufficiently "to avoid an attack of incapacitating space-sickness...
...pressure grew too great for Avery. His doctor and his two daughters begged him to resign. The directors instructed Barr to call a special meeting of the board, prepared a resignation for Avery to sign. At the board meeting the expected bitter showdown did not occur...