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Word: unhurt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fort Lauderdale, Fla., several thousand children gathered at Stranahan Field to see Santa parachute from a plane hired by the Chamber of Commerce. As he floated down, the children screamed in terror; a gust of wind wafted Santa onto some power lines nearby (see cut). Unhurt, Santa was helped down, and began passing out candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLICITY: Sad Santa | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Long Shot. In McAlester, Okla., police surveyed the results of a three-way traffic accident: a trailer truck and switching locomotive were badly banged up, the horse was unhurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...without benefit of a search warrant), impounded slot machines and took a brutal delight in pistol-whipping lawbreakers and cursing their wives and womenfolk. One day his automobile blew up as he stepped on the starter-somebody had inserted dynamite caps in the engine. Somehow Ambrose Metcalfe walked away unhurt.* Once a moonshiner blasted at him with a shotgun; he was only grazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: New Grave in Harlan County | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...pines snagged the plane's wings. The C82 lurched, crashed, burst into flames. Pilot Kilpatrick and two crewmen died in their seats. A pilot instructor and a lieutenant observer got out. Cool-headed Sergeant Hodgkiss also tumbled out, unhurt. Said he of his thoughts in the few seconds before the crash, "I just sat there and thought about my wife, Pearl Lucille. We've only been married nine months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Bail-Out | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Service Charge. In Columbus, Ohio, Albert French complained that when he fell through the third-story window of a hotel and landed unhurt, the manager billed him for the broken glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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