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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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His most celebrated novel was The Jungle, published in 1906, which told the harrowing story of a Lithuanian immigrant worker in Chicago's meat-packing industry. Though Sinclair's main intention was to dramatize the plight of a helpless proletarian, he described the then prevalent filth and brutality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE COMBATIVE INNOCENT | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

For that matter, Balthazar's whole life appears predestined to failure. The idyl with his 24-year-old nanny Bella, when he is but twelve, leads to his first sexual experience, the fathering of a never-to-be-seen son, and an agonizing separation. His next amorous adventure, initiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seduced and Abandoned | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Before the day was over, 21 men had made it to the frozen surface; but 78 others still remained trapped, some as much as 600 ft. below the ground. As hope diminished for their rescue, the disaster looked to be the worst mining accident in the U.S. since 119 men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Death in Consol No. 9 | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Eugene O'Neill will probably be remembered as one of the most flawed major playwrights in history. Aiming for greatness, he often achieved only length. When he tries to make his characters Greek-tragic, they appear just plain accident-prone. The notoriously awkward prose of The Iceman Cometh inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Will to be Great | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Gothic Tastes. O'Neill the sometime melodramatist could not have improved upon his own beginnings. He was born on a grey, showery day in October 1888 in the Barrett House, a family hotel fittingly located on Broadway. (During his last illness in Boston 65 years later, he was to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Will to be Great | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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