Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He was in fine, enthusiastic form at a Blair House reception held by Richard Nixon in his honor. To the State Department's Cultural Exchange Boss William Lacy, who showed up with a broken finger, Kozlov quipped that the accident was from an "EastWest handshake." When Nixon introduced House...
Like a man sideswiped by a fast car, Ohio's cherubic Governor Mike Di Salle dazedly picked himself up last week and felt around for broken bones. It was hit and run-but no accident. The driver: Presidential Hopeful John F. Kennedy. The verdict: the boldest power play thus...
So crowded are Cook County court dockets that the school-fire case will not come to trial for an estimated five years. But if it is decided in the plaintiffs' favor, it could have far-reaching results, facing Chicago and other cities with an endless procession of negligence damage...
Semantic Upkeep. Britain has stayed busy supplying semantic changes to keep pace with events. India and Pakistan, both republics, became members of the monarchical Commonwealth on condition that they acknowledge the Crown as "Head of the Commonwealth." At a London Conference in 1949 the assembled Prime Ministers issued a communique...
Safety First. Since the 1955 accident, sponsors of les vingt-quatre heures have plowed more than $600,000 into track improvements. Spectators can now watch from the protection of concrete tiers. Engines are top-limited at three liters' displacement (smaller than that of a Rambler), and no driver can...