Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He began by clearly, carefully outlining the Greer incident: the Greer was unmistakably a U.S. ship, was attacked by the Nazi submarine in waters declared by the U.S. to be "waters of self-defense." The at tack, he said, was either a deliberate Nazi attempt to sink a U.S. warship...
The Japanese garrison in Central China watched the rice too. Japan was rice-hungry. As the harvest began last month, 14,000 Japanese soldiers struck from their north Hunan bases down into the rice country. Last week while the decision seesawed in the balance, the Chinese soldiers fought desperately for...
Even the Great Exposition and the Crystal Palace, his father's pet hobby, left Bertie unmoved. "And then, one day, wandering through the tedious immensity of the East India Company's exhibit, he discovered ... a lively group representing the murderous Thugs at their work. He was enchanted." It...
The Steel Seafarer was one of the string of U.S. ships-now almost one-a-day-which have been carrying war materials to the British in the Middle East via the Red Sea for four-plus months. U.S. citizens could safely assume that the President would not let Incident No...
British bombees last week gratefully gulped mugs of the finest Mocha coffee, quite unconscious of the fact that Arab experts in Whitehall were afraid that their beverage might cause a diplomatic incident.