Word: accidentally
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A Diplomatic Lesson. After four weeks of discreet conversations, the negotiators completed the "preliminary articles" of a treaty that conceded all the major U.S. demands and envisioned a nation extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and from the Great Lakes to northern Florida-Minnesota, and with it the stupendous...
One boy of 18 who had suffered severe head injuries in an automobile accident, and had undergone three brain operations plus extended treatment in a hospital, was sent to Whitaker on the theory that he would soon die and needed only minimal care until he did. Though the boy had...
...genesis of a nuclear war. During the 1950's, about ninety per cent of our attention was devoted to deterring a calculated Soviet strike "out of the blue," that is, in an otherwise "normal" international situation. The other ten per cent of our planning was devoted to preventing an accidental war, again arising out of a normal situation. Kahn sees both of these possibilities as improbable, and argues that a nuclear war will most likely begin during a very tense crisis. The likely causes of the outbreak, in order of probability, are: 1. accident 2. a strike by the United...
The cause of the accident is undetermined. An MBTA official said it was the first such mishap in his 25 years of service, although a conductor mentioned it happened two years ago "back on the siding, where no one knew about it.
It was quite by accident that University of Rochester researchers first discovered zinc's help to healing. The researchers were studying the recovery times of deliberately wounded lab rats, and no one could figure out why one cageful of rodents was healing noticeably faster than the others. Painstaking detective...