Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grigori Roskin of Moscow University casually picked up an article on South America's fatal Chagas' disease, a protozoan infection spread chiefly by an acorn-sized insect, the triatoma. In female Chagas victims there is a wasting away of breast tissues, which are composed of large, spongy cells. Could it be, Dr. Roskin wondered, that the devouring parasitic trypanosomes are especially attracted to large cells? And that cancerous tissues, which are also made up of oversized cells, might also succumb to the same parasite...
...course, you didn't mean that the poor mother received transfusions of pure hemoglobin, which would have been toxic if not fatal. Mrs. Wenger probably received whole blood to build up her hemoglobin level...
...BETTER REASON THAN THE PRESSURE TO GET THE STUFF TOGETHER AND ON ITS WAY, HE WAS WORKING ONLY 18^ INCHES FROM THE SUBCRITICAL MASSES WITHOUT ANY PROTECTIVE GUARDS. ADMITTEDLY GOING TOO FAST FOR SAFETY, HE LET HIS SCREWDRIVER SLIP. IN LESS THAN A FLASH HE RECEIVED A FATAL DOSE OF RADIATION. FULLY AWARE THAT DEATH WAS CERTAIN, AND NOT WANTING ANY KNOWLEDGE TO DIE WITH HIM, SLOTIN RETURNED THE NEXT DAY TO THE LABORATORY AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING TO THE STAFF WHICH HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTING IN ASSEMBLY. NOT UNTIL THE END OF THE DAY DID HE GO TO THE HOSPITAL...
...Normandy, they "might well have turned the scales against us." ' His second decisive battle is not, surprisingly, the breakthrough at Saint-Lô, but the buttoning up of the Falaise pocket in mid-August. Here again, Eisenhower appreciates his foe's mistake: "The enemy showed that fatal tendency to stand and fight when all the logic of war demanded a strategic withdrawal...
...African Goums marched into the Place de la Concorde, ending the great Resistance Day parade, the unity that the Resistance had brought France seemed to falter. Young hotheads started yelling: "Vive De Gaulle! De Gaulle to power!" A Parisian moblet caught the fever, broke police lines. The flics-recalling fatal rightist riots on the same spot in 1934-laid about blindly with their iron-buttoned capes and arrested a handful of battered demonstrators. Other hotheads besieged Communist headquarters, burned...