Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery of oil-or the hope of it-made this game of sand-dune diplomacy suddenly twice as important. What if the sheikdom of Kuwait, now the world's richest known oilfield, should sever its connections with Britain and the sterling area? Or if the same idea should occur to oil-rich Qatar and Bahrein, or those shadowy Trucial* Oman sheikdoms, whose rulers, like the Sultan of Muscat and Oman himself, reign over barren sand and hope for oil strikes...
Protested a network spokesman: "We're bound to get into the same areas some time. The same thing that sparks us sparks them. It's not stealing." Evidently it was just beginning to occur to some studios that television versions of forthcoming movies might not be altogether harmful. Warner, preparing a film biography of Helen Morgan, tried fiercely to keep The Helen Morgan Story off Playhouse 90, but admitted quietly last week that it will borrow the title for the film...
...reflected in a survey taken by Dun & Bradstreet of the presidents* of 110 top U.S. corporations with total assets of $27 billion. Not one of the presidents saw a recession coming in 1957. To the contrary, three out of four were confident that no major depression or recession will occur within the next ten years, and all but five of the rest ruled out the possibility of recession until 1960 or later. As for their individual prospects, the presidents predicted sales increases in the next ten years ranging from...
...Nixon: "Of all gynecological operations, that of therapeutic abortion is the one that causes me most discomfort. Not only is there the destruction of the fetus-one can feel the shudder of the [operating room] staff-but also the constant vision of the coroner's court-deaths do occur...
...class began to gather before University Hall at 10 p.m. while anxious parents looked heavenward to see whether precipitation would occur before the march to the flag-decked quadrangle began. "What lovely raindrops," remarked Lowell House Master Elliot Perkins, arriving at the scene as a little rain fell...