Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rile his opponent by musical insults. He won his first war by being so insulting to two opponents at the same time that, after 45 minutes, they stopped to congratulate him on his virtuosity. His toughest battle was against the old Master, Lord Executor, until he found a fatal weakness to sing about: Executor's big toe had just popped out of his canvas sneaker...
...Operations. Penicillin is customarily used to fight infection after it develops. But British Surgeon R. Wood Power gave stiff doses of it, to prevent infection, to some 250 patients on whom he performed major operations. Result: few infections, no fatal blood clots, rapid recovery (after appendectomies, patients were up & about on the second...
...Anthrax. Primarily a disease of cattle and sheep, anthrax also attacks man, producing an infectious, often fatal, skin ailment. The only known protection: immunization by vaccine. Last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, four Army & Navy researchers announced that penicillin had cured 25 cases of anthrax in human beings...
When a character begins to slow the plot, Author Jennings shoots him or gives him a fatal tumble from the to'gallants. Wandering around in the background-as though to remind the reader that life in those days was more than just tosspots and sea-chanteys-are Sammy Adams, Tommy Jefferson and old General Washington...
...Words. The hopeful people had called him "Wilson the Just"-but he failed to carry his dreams of justice into reality. In the years since his fatal failure, the world had learned many words which had never been in Wilson's extensive vocabulary. It learned "Fascism," "Aryan," "Hooverville," "Stalinism," "uranium." The things the new words stood for had already killed more millions than ever cheered Wilson. Could the peacemakers of 1946 prevent these words-or their successors-from killing still more...