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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Military expediency'' was President Roosevelt's phrase for the combination of accident and policy which had brought about this state of affairs. In a military sense, the coincidence and the policy had produced some reward: General Dwight Eisenhower's armies had gained security in the rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Retreat from Greatness | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Newspapers vigilantly protect their cherished Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press. Occasionally some abuse that freedom. Such an abuse occurred in California last week as the incidental result of a minor auto accident.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Coverage and Conjecture | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Herman Mankiewicz is a moonfaced, top-flight Hollywood film writer. One night he was driving alone on Benedict Canyon Road in swank Beverly Hills. His car collided head-on with another driven by Leonora Gershwin, wife of Lyricist Ira Gershwin. Mrs. Gershwin and two women with her were hurt slightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Coverage and Conjecture | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

In the light of Sir William's new mission, the U.S. could see the deep functional weaknesses of the President's plan. The report sent up by NRPB was a huge grab bag of all the extensive leftover plans which the war had forced the New Deal to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cradle to Grave to Pigeonhole | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

When the people below heard the screams and saw the heap, they thought a bomb had blocked the entrance. They made a rush for the stairs. At that very moment (here and only here did the war touch this accident) something in the sky over London frightened those who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Mishap in London | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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