Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were deeper, more fatal defects. The Democrats' own board of directors was sadly divided. One split was the final revolt of the Southern conservatives against the New Dealers. Another came with the huffy retirement of such top-rank officers as Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace from the Cabinet...
After three months largely concerned with gimcracks and revivals, Broadway itself revived last week. On successive nights, three established U.S. playwrights-Maxwell Anderson with Joan of Lorraine, George Kelly with The Fatal Weakness, Lillian Hellman with Another Part of the Forest-brought showers or real rain to parched ground...
That, in the fall of 1946, was the world's most fatal question. A large part of the answer depended on the new immigrant himself, but Trygve Lie, sawing and smoothing and (sometimes) hacking brusquely away at tasks immediately before him, was no man to waste time wondering whether he was building Utopia or merely providing material for a footnote on how two civilizations (and some threescore sovereignties) catastrophically clashed...
...first assignment." But when, in 1933, approaching a colonel's retirement age, he was ordered to leave his regiment and become Senior Instructor of the Illinois National Guard, he dashed off a letter to Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, pleading that such a shift would be "fatal to his future." MacArthur was adamant, and for months Author Marshall watched her husband go about his new duties with "a grey, drawn look." When Colonel Marshall's generalcy came through in 1936, husband and wife sat staring at each other, speechless...
...practiced glibness makes even Mr. White a little uneasy. He concedes that his shimmering blueprint "will be too purely theoretical for the practicing statesman, who is faced with the grim job of operating with equipment at hand. . . ." Since practicing statesmen can do little else, this admission is perhaps fatal...