Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This incident on a South African coach in 1893 foreshadowed a movement that has since made history. The young Indian was Mohandas Gandhi, and the nonviolent resistance he was practicing later became a mighty weapon for a weaponless people. To Gandhi himself, nonviolence was much more than a weapon; it...
When Wildman managed to struggle free, he demanded to know the meaning of this outrage. He would see his lawyers, he said. That was all right with Headmaster Copping. He and the students had planned the incident to give Wildman some of his own medicine. Copping had even trapped Wildman...
Ike had hand-picked Patton because "for certain types of action [he] was the outstanding soldier our country has produced ..." Patton knew that Ike had saved his hide more than once, wrote to him after the famous soldier-slapping incident: "I am at a loss to find words with which...
One incident alone illustrates Hopkins' enormous influence. On Oct. 3, 1944, Roosevelt had cabled Churchill implying that he (Churchill) could speak for the U.S. on Balkan affairs when he next saw Stalin. F.D.R. had written a cable to Stalin to the same effect; when Hopkins heard about it he...
Since they always leave their door unlocked, they surmised that the man who had made off with the leaflets had "planted" them there before making his departure. At the estimated time of the incident, about 10 p.m., John Cramer '52 and Stephen E. Hedberg '52 asserted they were "at the...