Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crosby go to Republican Mayor Fred Peterson to urge the ouster of a police chief who had refused to cooperate. Said Elkins: "They were trying to figure a way or something that the mayor could hang his hat on to remove the chief of police. It didn't occur to them that [the mayor] might be honest, or not go along with them...
...professor emeritus Dr. Graham continued his research. Last fall he was working on a technical paper describing the time lag which may occur between the painting of tar on animals and the appearance of cancer, and speculating that heavy smokers may get lung cancer years after they quit. Said Graham then: "I shouldn't be surprised if I died of lung cancer...
...water) through which he descends. Much nonsense has been written about this "tremendous crushing force," Dr. Lanphier notes, but "the body as a whole, being made up of solids and fluids, is no more likely to be crushed than a bucket of water lowered into the depths." Damage can occur only when there is an unequalized difference of pressure-and that means where there is air, i.e., in the lungs and airways, paranasal sinuses and the middle ear. (Gas in the gut gives no trouble because the supple intestinal walls simply contract to equalize the pressure...
...country . . . should consider where do our long-term interests lie. And certainly they demand a Europe that is not flat on its back economically . . . Oil must flow in such a quantity as to fill up every tanker we have operating at maximum capacity, and if that doesn't occur, then we must do something in the way, first, I should say, of conference and argument, and, if necessary, we would have to move in some other region or some other direction, either with our own facilities or with others', but it must be done...
...next February with no ex-president to beat the drum to scare up new members who will vote for his side. With no one to take former president Thomson's place, the yearly race between the two great factions in the club, Old Guard and Older Guard, might not occur...