Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The committee had touched on a political incident (the Dewey letters). It had given away some military secrets (the code-breaking "Magic"). But more than anything else, it had disclosed the improvisations of U.S. foreign policy and how ill prepared the Army & Navy had been to back up the strong...
Died. Sir Hugh Allen, 76, Oxford University music professor, former conductor of the famed Oxford Bach Choir,† president of the prestigious Royal College of Organists, musical adviser to the British Broadcasting Corp. (he once divided human time into three ages: B.C., A.D., and B.B.C.); after an automobile accident; in...
In the first scene, a woman slaps her ne'er-do-well son-in-law, who loses his balance and falls out the window of his Maine boathouse. The fatality, as it proves to be, is witnessed by the young man's wife and by a little old man who...
One cardinal-elect might not travel to Rome: Johannes de Jong of Utrecht, Holland's first cardinal since the Reformation, whose physician decided he had not yet recovered from a recent motor accident. His red hat would be brought to him by a papal legate.
Labor's bill would not transform the barren land of British mining into a Utopia. Shafts would still be too narrow for modern machinery. Antiquated methods, deep tunnels, high accident rates would still plague the sick British industry. Bitter miners would continue slowdowns and flash strikes.