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Word: accidentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desperately, Robertson eased sail; relentlessly, Gretel increased her margin-sliding through the heavy seas with ghostly grace. She stood high, she footed fast, she simply could not be caught-even by accident. Just one-quarter mile from the finish line, Gretel's light blue Genoa jib tore loose from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grim Duel at Newport | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who has begun to step up his criticism of the Kennedy Administration, issued a special statement to get into the argument. "In the last 18 months," he said, "we have moved steadily towards the Soviet position. This continual weakening of our position has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: Rebuff in Geneva | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

The Unique Force. Yet the final mood of Marilyn Monroe is embarrassment. First taken by the world only as a vapid comedienne, she strove to become both an actress and an intellectual, and in death somehow became something more. As the London Daily Mail noted, her death has "impoverished the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Thrilled with Guilt | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Arthur Lyman was born on the island of Kauai, the youngest of eight children of a Hawaiian mother and a father of French, Belgian and Chinese extraction. When Arthur's father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mood Merchant | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

The researchers found no physiological differences between the two types. Their blood pressures were in the same range, both at rest and under stress. In psychomotor skills (brake reaction time, vision, making split-second decisions), the high-accident men rated a notch higher than low-risk types−but in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Personality at the Wheel | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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