Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spasmic contractions of the blood vessels; 3) a spirochete (not the syphilis variety). But treatments based on these theories (e.g., anti-clotting and blood-vessel dilating drugs) do not cure the disease. It usually strikes between the ages of 20 and 35. It is seldom painful, and rarely fatal, but often cripples its victims...
...sermon called "Communist Dynamics and the Hope of Peace." the onetime Methodist minister drew a badly needed, clear-cut line between liberalism and Communism. Said he: "Communism is a sincere but psychopathic attempt to adjust the life of man hurriedly to the world of the machine. . . . Its fatal defect is that wherever its principles are applied man loses and the machine wins. This is inherent in the nature of Communism because its faith is not in man but in social mechanics...
...Governor Tom in Albany. His man for the Senate now was 50-year-old Irving M. Ives, a veteran of World War I, majority leader of the State Assembly, dean of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Dewey's nod to Ives put a fatal chill on the boosters for Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan (TIME, Sept. 2). A respected legislator, with a good record on labor relations, Mr. Ives grasped his opportunity gratefully...
Infectious hepatitis, which attacks the liver, is rarely fatal, but invariably puts its victims in bed for two to three months. It may be much more widespread than formerly supposed. Reason: most of the symptoms (headache, fever, vomiting) are those of influenza or any respiratory disorder, and some patients never develop jaundice (yellowing of the skin...
...whisked out to the Blue Bonnets racetrack for the running of the big sixth race, renamed in his honor. The winning jockey was a namesake (but no kin) of Maurice Chevalier, which was fitting, because the man who handed him the winner's plaque was the latest homme fatal from France, 40-year-old Troubadour Jean Sablon...