Word: occurs
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WITH a thunderous roar, hundreds of tons of dirt and rock dropped from sight, tossing trees around like matchsticks and leaving the yawning, lunar-like crater shown above. Now, after investigating the massive cave-in, which occurred last December in central Alabama's Shelby County, the U.S. Geological Survey has identified the crater as a "sinkhole." It may be the largest yet (as much as 425 ft. across and 150 ft. deep) in a growing number of such cave-ins that have pockmarked central and northern Alabama in recent years. Sinkholes often occur when the roofs of underground limestone...
...coin theft was the second robbery to occur in the Fogg in less than a month. According to University police, a Navajo rug, belonging to the assistant librarian of the Fine Arts Library in the Fogg, was stolen from the stack area of the library on March 19. Police said that the rug has not yet been found
...change will occur in order to house 60 additional female students in the Yard. The increase of 60 women in the Yard was precipitated by a CHUL vote to better the male-to-female ratio from five to one to four to one in the Yard...
...Martin S. Hirsch, a specialist in infectious diseases, said that lymphomas--tumors of the lymph glands--occur "several thousand times" more often among transplant patients than among healthy people of the same age groups. The studies revealing this fact were conducted at the University of Colorado Medical School and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Denver, he said...
...viral infection, which current medical theory holds to be a main cause of cancer, should occur, the body would not be able to reject either the virus or the tumor, he said...