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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The plot is unusual and clever. It concerns a life insurance salesman, Walter Neff, played by MacMurray, who sees a chance to beat his own company, get rich quick, and marry a beautiful woman--and all for the simple price of murder. This opportunity is presented to Neff by one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/29/1944 | See Source »

Louis Waldman could barely speak English when he got his first harsh lesson in U.S. labor relations. In a chandelier factory, where he worked for $2 a week, a woman's hand was smashed in an unguarded machine. Waldman, 17 and fresh from Yancherudnia in the Ukraine, was fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ware the Reds! | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Along with all the other bad news, Berlin admitted that it was more or less true about Field Marshal Rommel: he had indeed met with a deplorable accident while motoring in France during an Allied air raid. The Marshal, in fact, had had a brain concussion, though his condition was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Mauled Marshal | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Death from the errors of fellow soldiers is an old story in war-especially in combat involving aircraft. But few officers of such high rank have died that way. Most memorable accident in U.S. military history: the death of General Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson, who was shot by his North Carolinians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: From My Own Men | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Favored Germans who were sitting out the war in spas and mountain resorts trembled as the Party's hunt for manpower spread. They knew that Dr. Ley's speech about "blue-blooded swine" (TIME, July. 31) was no accident, that in the frenzied Nazi search for a new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Total War | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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