Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The incident" changed all that. One night in August 1940, the Luftwaffe all but blotted out the Walk. A Cockney told how it blasted him off the street into a church. Everyone lost a relative or a friend.
University fire-fighters displayed their ability to cope with incendiaries in an "incident" atop the House squash courts. At a given signal, little men climbed nimbly up hastily erected ladders and began dousing the roof, each other, and, theoretically, the conflagration with streams of water from their fire hoses. With...
In World War II Lewis' invention has made one verified appearance thus far: at Ichang, in the Yangtze Valley, where 3,500 Chinese fell in October 1941 when the Japs unleashed clouds of lewisite. This was one of 880 verified instances of Jap use of gas. The Ichang incident...
Honor and Msambi Juice. Shocked by the terror loosed when the Indian National Congress party was driven to open revolt, Bhansali became involved in investigations of an incident at the village of Chimur. There a mob killed three constables and a sub-inspector, then burned their bodies. British troops arrested...
For at least twenty-four hours the College was more than mildly Corio-conscious. Networkmen did not have to call a special meeting to decide that this incident carried with it a moral. "Your audience," said the moral, "likes sex; let them have it."