Sentence:  Of straight dramas , there <WSD>are</WSD> All the Way Home , which owes much of its poetic power to the James Agee novel , A Death in the Family ; The Wall , awkwardly based on the John Hersey novel ; Advise and Consent , lively but shallow theater drawn from the mountainously detailed bestseller ; Face of a Hero ( closed ) , based on a Pierre Boulle novel . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  happen, occur, take place; this was during the visit to my parents' house"