Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress' vote to liquidate OPA might be classed as political assassination or political accident (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But for the U.S. economy it was only an incident in the struggle to reach a national decision, the decision to have as much goods as higher prices could produce.
For the past decade China's most celebrated political prisoner has been Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the "Young Marshal." Son of fabulous "Old Marshal" Chang Tso-lin, who drank tiger blood and warlorded it over Manchuria until his assassination in 1928, the Young Marshal kidnaped Generalissimo Chiang...
The Russians held a meeting, worried about a possible "incident," wondered how to protect their wives and children who had settled in Fushun with them. "The Chinese have taken over by force," Chneider said, shrugging as only Russians can. "We have no force." Finally, the Russians got in touch with...
The incident highlighted the edgy mood of British businessmen, who of late have noted a stiffening in the Argentine official attitude toward British investment. So long as Argentina got the icy treatment from the U.S., the Farrell military government leaned over backward to be friendly. British investors, reconciled to expropriation...
"Just look at that guy," said Harlow, pointing, "it doesn't even take a scrimmage for a guy to get hurt. All he has to do is run to the right when he's supposed to run to the left and he winds up with a bloody nose." Harlow went...