Word: happens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morocco-born Pesquet, an unstable and bizarre fellow, was hardly a man whose word was to be preferred to Mitterrand's, except for one fact: nine hours before the attack, he said, he had written a letter describing exactly what was going to happen, and had posted it to himself, care of general delivery. When police collected the letter from the post office, they found that it did indeed describe the attack correctly, even pinpointed the spot at which Mitterrand had abandoned his car after the shooting...
...timing were chosen, the Russians said, so that on the far side it would come close to a line drawn between the moon and the sun. As it approached the line, an electronic signal from the earth started its automatic machinery-and all sorts of things began to happen. Lunik was spinning (for directional stability) with one of its ends pointing roughly toward the sun; the first thing the orienting mechanism did was to stop the spinning, probably by ejecting small spurts of gas through nozzles. Then optical viewing devices looking through ports in the sunward end told the mechanism...
...Australians is just beginning to be felt. In last year's elections, when the parties campaigned in half a dozen languages, most of the newcomers, as satellite refugees from Communism, backed Conservative Premier Robert Menzies. But some of Menzies' aides shudder to think what would happen to their own fortunes if the Continental Roman Catholics joined up eventually with Irish Catholics among the Old Australians, who traditionally vote Labor...
...This was true even when the tranquil men ate as much animal fat, smoked as much, and got as little exercise as the climbers. Dr. Friedman suspected that taut emotions worked on the arteries through hormones. But which? And was it a 24-hour process, or did it happen mainly during the gogetters' working hours...
...experience that one doesn't know how many allies one has until one makes a fight (or enemies either), and that in this case there are many people, including government officials and "politicians" who would be indebted to Harvard for recalling them to their best selves. To see this happen--to see apparently monolithic nihilism or apathy give way--is also educative...