Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectacle of power but also of disorder. Flushing .Meadows: the practical goals are seemingly attained. But that is not enough.. . . Feeling, in the last analysis, leads man by the nose. . . . Ridge field, Amawalk, Blue Mountain: seen from an airplane these desolate territories strike one with anguish, foretelling a fatal adventure marked with the sign of death. . . . White Plains, Greenwich, Round Hills: ... a privileged region . . . polished and policed. . . . The region 'breathes.' Here one feels is a place where one can camp...
...were seasoned and loyal troops. From a striking force of perhaps 2,500 men, Washington detached a skeleton brigade led by General Hugh Mercer to destroy the bridge over Stony Brook. But it was too late. The British regulars shattered and scattered the raw American irregulars, gave Mercer a fatal wound. His panicked men infected Washington's main body...
...relief: their fever and malaise disappeared, their tumors subsided, they gained weight, some went back to work. Nitrogen mustard sometimes worked after X rays had become ineffective. Best results were against incurable Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Although Hodgkin's is almost invariably fatal, one Chicago patient, a young commercial artist, has been kept in good working health for 33 months by periodic mustard treatments. Nitrogen mustard, the doctors warned, is not a cancer cure. But it i) relieves some patients' suffering for months at a time, 2) has encouraged researchers to think...
...remedy has been to refine the plane's lines, polish the skin. Such tricks push the speed limit upward. But they succeed at a fearful price. Above 600 m.p.h. the slightest irregularity may beckon a fatal wave out of the speeding...
...courtroom, the case of the fatal charmer Neville George Clevely Heath was handled with typical British dispatch. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang, all within three days. Now the British press could set up a-long-suppressed howl...