Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...February day in 1955, Charles Kilpatrick, who worked for Georgia Power Co., was holding a surveyor's rod in the fenced enclosure of one of the company's substations outside Atlanta. Somehow, the rod touched a live wire carrying 11,000 volts. Kilpatrick was savagely burned and lost consciousness. Doctors at the Emory hospital doubted that he would live and it was touch and go for weeks. With third-degree burns penetrating to the bones of his lower left leg and right foot, Kilpatrick mercifully did not regain full consciousness for two weeks. By then, Surgeon William...
...seriously hurt. Then, roaring through pitch black night into the tricky stretch that leads to the corner called Tertre Rouge, French Driver Jean Mary (real name: Jean Brousselet) drove head on into a steep embankment. His Jaguar bounced back into the path of an onrushing Ferrari. Somehow the Ferrari driver, Los Angeles' Bruce Kessler, dived from his seat just before the explosive crash, and escaped death. But Jean Mary died in the wreck...
...Leader Jomo Kenyatta (now in prison), got the conspiracy charge thrown out on a technicality, and set forth to destroy the reputations of the moderate African nominees who appeared as witnesses for the prosecution. At one he thundered: "Do you hate Africans, or merely despise them?" But somehow, the fireworks...
Executive mouth is not limited to jobs with tension, says Dr. Lynch; even manual laborers with a strong drive to succeed may take their troubles out on their teeth. The executive-mouth victim might conceivably "be a ditchdigger who gets frustrated because he wants to dig better ditches, and somehow...
...December 1944, and the Russians have driven the Germans back into Czechoslovakia. Only diehard Nazis still hope that Hitler's secret weapons will somehow turn defeat into magical victory. Czech partisans are rampant behind the German lines, settling old scores with pro-German civilians, cutting off groups of soldiers, even capturing the division commander who is trying to stem the Russian surge through the Carpathian passes...