Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fringe of other left-wing labor men. Six days after the proposal was made, Henry had not yet said either yes or no. But it was painfully evident to Democratic politicians that if he did form a third party, it would be bad for them, although not necessarily fatal. Republicans were jubilant: it would do them no harm whatsoever...
...experimenters "set out to discover which diseases, spread by air, are most easily contracted and most fatal. Tularemia (rabbit fever) won on both counts. Runners-up: melioidosis, a glanders-like Oriental disease; glanders...
...that what he sought there (agreement being impossible) was world understanding of the misunderstanding. He was trying to demonstrate once & for all that true negotiations with the Russians were not possible, and that fake negotiations, based on the myth of "the unanimity of the great powers," would prove a fatal trap for U.S. policy. Since Molotov was tougher and more plainly destructionist than he had to be, the Russian helped Marshall make his point...
...earth who should come after them. There were moments in that period when there was no other resource but that faith, when the sands in the hourglass seemed to have run out and all would soon be over. Had there been disillusionment then, it would have been fatal...
Winant's own final and fatal disillusionment is nowhere hinted at in his book; it is a call to faith, by a man who had crucially asserted...