Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It is hardly possible to open a paper today without encountering some new phase of the gross cruelty and perverted enthusiasm with which so many of our "superior, kindly" U.S. citizens are persecuting and prosecuting their neighbors, whether black or Jewish or white or Catholic. But we seem, in California...
The President had been worried about his mother, 94-year-old Mrs. Martha Ellen Truman, ever since she had fallen and broken her hip three weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 24). He had hurried to her bungalow in Grandview, Mo. immediately after the accident, had telephoned every day after he got...
Two children found the remains of Gardiner floating in the water under circumstances suggesting a skating accident and subsequent drowning. They quickly rushed up the bank to summon police assistance.
It was "routine," said the now inactive union boss (U.M.W. District 50): "I live in a sparsely settled section." At Miami Beach, gunmen who robbed the Beachcomber nightclub got the jewels stored there by Veteran Torchsinger Sophie ("Last of the Red Hot Mammas") Tucker. Her estimate: $75,000. Ex-Scandals...
Gunning's advice: "Write as you talk. Most bestsellers, and even the King James version of the Bible, are written so sixth-or seventh-graders can read them. Why should a Washington correspondent write 'bilateral concordance' when he means 'two-way pact?' Why should a...