Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian radio and press reports had at first told a story of tranquility and machinelike precision in Russian-occupied Germany-of more food, of mutual tolerance, if not outright friendship, between conqueror and conquered. Then there was a change in tone. The Berlin mayor broadcast a warning to his citizens...
Despite the closeness of large numbers of troops, only one incident occurred during the first two and a half weeks-a group of Tito's men one night jumped an American soldier and stole his rifle. Colonel Rudolph W. Broedlow, commanding the regiment, forbade any retribution. Later, when Broedlow...
Instantly all parties protested. Cried the Communist L'Unità: an "intimidating maneuver." Sighed the monarchist Italia Nuova: a "regrettable incident." Embarrassed, the Allied military authorities released Nenni, hinted that his arrest was due to the excessive zeal of an Allied M.P.
"Once upon a time there was an English religious weekly that ventured in its innocence to express its hope that an American President might be reelected. The comment led almost to an international incident. 'How dare a British paper try to influence the highly intelligent citizens of the great...
Burned Up. A trusted veteran of 20 years' reporting, and the A.P.'s European war chief, Kennedy had rashly risked his reputation. Why? He had sat on stories before: like some other newsmen in the Mediterranean, for example, he had known all about the Patton face-slapping incident...