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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the morning 1,500 prisoners marched, singing, to the station. They were squeezed into cattle trucks. But Brussels' Resistance had been busy. The engine would not run. Another was found and coupled onto the train. But the engineer could not be found. A searching party discovered him at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: The Ghost Train | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

¶ Two weeks later Major Thomas B. McGuire Jr., top-scoring active ace* in the Pacific (38 Jap planes), died as a result of accident and enemy action. McGuire made a fast turn to go to the rescue of his wingman, who was being attacked, when his P-38 stalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In One Week | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

Choice Cut. In Manhattan, meat-hungry gourmets were offered, after an accident at an upstate game reserve that incapacitated the animal for zoo purposes, a limited supply of llama steak.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

To erase their names without cause, other than the accident of birth and race, reduces our honor rolls to an array of meaningless painted boards. To the American Legion Post of Hood, Ore., three hearty Bronx cheers! EVANGELINE S. McALLISTER (The Sage Hen) Bayard, Neb.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Only a few days before, Reporter Cowan had gone coasting with his own two children, Jimmy, 4, and Nadine, 7, near the scene of the accident, and the sled had broken under his weight. Last week the broken sled was still in the repair shop. Said Father Cowan: "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unhappy Triumph | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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