Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Sun Li-jen, 55, has long been known as one of the ablest, bravest, as well as one of the most "Western-minded" leaders in the Chinese Nationalist high command. He learned his trade at Virginia Military Institute (class of '27) and practiced it heroically in smashing Japanese...
The adventures themselves retain the timeless quality of myth: the gigantic Cyclops is chillingly acted by Umberto Silvestri, and his howls of frenzy at the loss of his eye are enough to shatter cliffs; the immortal and immoral Circe (also played by Silvana Mangano) can call up tempests or turn...
The 1955 polio season made history by its unique sendoff: the statisticians had scarcely begun feeding figures into their machines for the new disease year, beginning in April, when the Cutter vaccine incident broke, and it became clear that some of the Salk vaccine contained live virus. Almost at once...
Hiccuping lightly, Betty was whisked off the Hollister, and the embarrassed Navy decided not to press an official inquiry into several unanswered questions, e.g., who helped smuggle Betty aboard, and how did she manage to slip past the quarterdeck watch? By week's end silence had settled over the...
One day in 1936, George Parke, a retired printer in Farmhaven, Miss., sat down to write a piece of all-but-forgotten history. In 1,628 words, he told a closely detailed story of the New Orleans Mafia lynching of 1891. A mob, led by a band of riflemen, broke...