Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Litvinoff's genial old billikin face turned purple. His snowy-haired English wife, Ivy Litvinoff, confusedly asked: "Are we going, papa?" As the plane loaded with Britons took off without the Litvinoffs, it was apparent that a first-class diplomatic incident had occurred.
Later Ambassador Litvinoff cooled somewhat and flew off in the Russian war plane that had brought him from Samara. The British Government was all apology. London reports said that prior to the incident Ambassador Litvinoff had refused passage in a special R.A.F. plane, declaring that the seats were not suitable...
More recently, in the celebrated Walsh-Sweezy dismissal incident four years ago, Ferguson was appointed by President Conant to the Committee of Eight investigating the case.
The story concerns a rather innocent young English girl who marries, after a very short acquaintance, a sophisticated, alterative, but perfectly worthless cafe-societies sort of fellow, and who becomes convinced that he is a thief and a murderer. Hitchcock builds up incident after incident, each one heightening the suspicion...
The play began with a tiny incident, something as small as Ben Franklin's nail (for want of which a horseshoe was lost). And the result threatened to be as enormous as Franklin's disaster (for want of a battle, the kingdom was lost).