Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there had been one fatal slip. Guard Miller had managed to throw away the key to the yard door. When the convicts realized this Cretzer babbled: "Well, that does it up. San Francisco is just as far away." With one pistol, one rifle, and less than 50 rounds of ammunition, Coy and his desperate men settled down to holding off the besiegers...
...Penitentes, a lay society of obscure medieval origin, are found from Texas to California among the Spanish-speaking Catholics. During the Golden Age of New Mexican flagellation (1850-90), the Penitentes' zeal bred scandalous tales of actual crucifixions, often fatal, among members. In 1889 the Catholic archbishop of Santa Fe banned the cult as barbaric. It now enjoys clerical toleration. Weakened but persistent, the Penitentes retreated to remote villages, continued their Holy Week rites, but stood by with carbines to ward off nosy gringos who were baffled but fascinated by the twin Spanish traits: a passionate sense...
Even before Matthew Arnold brooded thus on Dover Beach in 1867, many Christians had been oppressed by a belief that Christianity was in a perhaps fatal decline, ailing within and sore beset from without. Indeed, the Dim View has been and is almost a cliché in press and pulpit...
...bombs and plants remained in the U.S. (were they could be seized in case of war), other nations could feel no more secure than at present. To proposals to control atomic bomb manufacture by international inspection, the objection was that, if inspection failed, the consequences would be fatal to all nations which had observed the rules...
...Fatal Flight. Glennon at first thought he was too old to make the journey to Rome to receive his hat. But, thinking he might find the trip by plane more feasible, he took a test hop around southeast Missouri. A companion remarked that it was an honor to share His Eminence's first plane ride. Glancing out of the window, Glennon said: "It will be an even greater honor to come down with...