Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At week's end, owners, A.F.L. and N.M.U. eyed each other, fought, threatened, broke off negotiations. N.M.U., to show how tough it was, even yanked its men off security watches aboard the struck ships, leaving them and their cargoes unprotected from fire, storm, accident or decay. Owners pleaded for...
The biggest crowd (60,135 fans) ever to see a regularly scheduled pro game jammed Cleveland's Municipal Stadium to watch Cleveland's Browns run away from Miami, 44-0. The big attendance was no lucky accident: Arthur McBride, the Browns's owner, had hired 25 telephone...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who slept in a tourist cabin last month when a Maine hotel barred Fala, got advance assurance this time from a hotel in Albany, N.Y.: Fala would get the big hello, with special dog biscuit. Before she arrived in the city to keynote the state Democratic Convention -her...
By horse & buggy he got around to miners' huts and farmers' sickbeds. He went down mine shafts after many a mining accident, delivered three generations of babies, as often as not without being paid. When a Caesarean seemed indicated, Dr. Porter, no surgeon, did the best he could...
From a poem. by the Rev. George Crabbe, a 19th-Century English parson-poet, Librettist Montagu Slater had fashioned a psychopathic case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman. The first scene is an inquest into the murder of Peter Grimes's boy apprentice. Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the...