Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Pinchot, himself recovering from a minor operation, cut short his convalescence to visit her bedside a Grey Towers, the home of the Pinchots, and of Nurse McCadden. Hearing his voice, she stirred, woke from her coma, cried: "My boy! My boy!" But soon after she yielded to a fatal relapse...
...Senatus Populusque Romanus)-, known also as "tram-ways," sat Fascist Deputy Armando Casalini with his 14-year-old daughter. As the trolley car moved off, a well-dressed young man answering to the name of Giovanni Corvi jumped on the rear platform, drew a revolver, fired three fatal shots at Casalini, who fell forward and remained motionless despite the pathetically desperate invocations of his frightened daughter. The assassin, having completed his ghastly deed, turned, jumped off the car, fell, picked himself up and made off, chased by an angry mob. Several shots were exchanged between chased and chasers, but without...
...these may be easily manufactured in ordinary chemical factories. So any nation with a large chemical industry is in the position of being superlatively armed. The use of airplanes will make possible the spreading of these gases in industrial centres and among the civil population, with a terribly fatal effect. It will be practically impossible to provide protection on a nation-wide scale against some of these gases...
There is a painless gas which produces a fatal effect on the heart, of which the victim would have no knowledge before - or after - he dropped dead. There are gases which upset the digestive functions and prevent the taking of food. Other gases poison the blood and prevent it from carrying oxygen to the several parts of the body. Gases may be used which have a gradual effect, not noticed at first, or which-like mustard gas-seep into solid objects and infest a neighborhood for weeks...
...would do. The wisest course, but perhaps not safer than signing the bill, would be to refer the whole question to a referendum of the people, many of whom, however, would be incapable of expressing an intelligent opinion on the problem. But each moment of Royal indecision may be fatal; meanwhile, the Dynasty trembles...