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“Within the building itself, you would be shook around so much that there could be incidental injuries to people from falling objects within the building itself,” he told the board.

It was only later the country learned there had only been one incidental attack, and the second was created as pretext to call it a provocation that required a massive American response.

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Inspired by the venomous novel by Warren Adler, both films are metaphors for building a home and then tearing it down, although the chandelier this time is merely incidental.

And don’t think of that despair as incidental or accidental.

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The show’s theme was a cocktail culture cover of “Crazy Train”; incidental music transitioning one scene to the next was intentionally reminiscent of 1950s sitcoms.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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