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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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In March, the grounded tanker Torrey Canyon spewed some 90,000 tons of crude oil into the coastal waters off southwestern Britain. Though only part of the oil reached the beaches, the accident cost Britain $7,000,000 in cleanup charges, polluted the sea from Cornwall to Brittany and dealt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Mopping Up Oily Oceans | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

BERTHA GODFREY is a quick-tempered housewife from Tallapoosa Co., Ala. When a white woman's car smashed into hers and the police chief who investigated the accident said it was her fault, she snapped at him, "Just because I'm a Negro woman you want to treat me like...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: Despite Perpetual Crisis, Still Publishes | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Godard uses the closeup at the end when an inspector asks Miss Goya what she will do now that her boyfriend is dead (a silly accident) and she's pregnant. Miss Goya repeats in a still voice, "I don't know"--her face almost expressionless. The effect is ambiguous, exactly...

Author: By Joel DE Mott, | Title: Masculine/Feminine | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

A short (5 ft. 7 in.), stocky man with a mustache and goatee, Smith has been a cab driver for the past five years, paying a daily fee of $16.50 to use a "rent-a-cab." From that investment he can expect $100 a week-in a good week-as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Sparks & Tinder | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Died. Thomas Gaetano Luchese, 67, alias "Three-Finger Brown" (he lost his right forefinger in an accident), shadowy underworld figure named in 1963 by Gangland Songbird Joe Valachi as a ranking dope racketeer and presumed successor to Frank Costello as the Mafia's New York political fix-it man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 21, 1967 | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

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