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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greatest Since Creation. It is only an accident of history that Richard Nixon occupied the White House when the U.S. first landed men on the moon, but the coincidence seems apt. No less than Neil Armstrong, he is the smalltown boy who rose to fame, the upright citizen, the doer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MOON AND MIDDLE AMERICA | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Harried Seclusion Kennedy's lost night on Chappaquiddick off Martha's Vineyard and the mystifying week that followed brought back all the old doubts. For approximately nine hours after the car that he was driving plunged from Dike Bridge?carrying his only passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, to a death by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

According to Teddy's statement, he left the Dike Bridge in shock and on foot, wet and minus his passenger. Why Teddy told no one about the accident and did not seek help for the girl, why no one called a doctor or even asked Kennedy what had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedys: Wrong Turn at the Bridge | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

More explainable was Miss Kopechne's presence on the island. On a weekend reunion with girls she had met while a member of the R.F.K. staff, she had come to the island to watch the Edgartown Regatta and to see Teddy race. Staying at the Katama Shores Inn in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedys: Wrong Turn at the Bridge | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

During the period that ended about 10,000 years ago with the discovery of agriculture, all of the seeds of civilization were sown. Out of the sharing and reciprocity demanded by the hunt, and out of the division of labor between male and female, arose the human family. The hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropology: The Original Affluent Society | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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