Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Man at Line's End. It was no scientist who, by historic accident, somewhat unwittingly, somewhat against his own will, became more than any other man responsible for the bomb, its use in 1945 and its future. It was an ordinary, uncurious man without any pretensions to scientific...
Harry Truman, a very plain man indeed, who had never sought or dreamed of being Man of the Atomic Year, had been cast up to his position by an accident of the tides, by the shifting forces of politics. In the same startled and unpremeditated fashion, mankind itself, shrinking from...
Conscious of the fact that he and his world had finally found the formula for complete destruction, he also knew that he had been given added time to struggle against it. That, perhaps by the same kind of accident which made Harry Truman the Man of 1945, was the hope...
In the 130th Station Hospital in Heidelberg (a former German cavalry barracks), General George Smith Patton Jr. was fighting for his life. His neck had been broken in an auto accident when he was on his way to shoot pheasants. He fought with the same tenacity with which he had...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's son Manfred was left $500 by an 85-year-old New Jersey spinster who didn't know him but pitied him for being "handicapped" and wanted to help him in "his unequal struggle for existence." The twelve-year-old son of the Lindbergh kidnapper...