Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's death approached, Annie, realistic as always, realized that she, too, must fall. For several days, the crew sadly reported approaching Yanks. On the fatal night, grave messages came over 1212 with disturbing frequency. Suddenly the broadcast was interrupted by excited voices, a scuffle in the outer room, shouts and shots. The hated Allies were seizing the transmitter! "Put on the record, the RECORD!", a German voice shouted. And as Annie began, so she died, with the reedy, recorded Rhenish tune...
Next day, the nearly fatal deadlock was not so much broken as spiked. The U.S.'s placatory Edward R. Stettinius had produced a compromise which both London and Moscow would accept. Vishinsky was willing to drop his charges against Britain-provided that this Russian retreat was not mentioned in the Council's official resolution. Bevin took a long, hard look at the record, decided it spoke for itself, and withdrew his demand for an explicit "not guilty." The final statement, accepted over much relieved smiling and handshaking, merely informed the world that a debate had taken place...
January Thaw uses one of those broad-comedy situations that can be funny for an act but is almost always fatal for an evening. Here very little is funny, even at the start. Beyond grinding out increasingly frantic variations on a single theme, January Thaw is always corny and often cobwebby in its humor...
...victim had not told the airline that he had been in a tubercular clinic and under treatment by pneumothorax (collapsed lung). His death was due to a simple law of physics: as atmospheric pressure decreased, the air in his chest cavity expanded to a volume that swiftly caused fatal complications...
...often shady, approach to life neatly matches Austria's equally stumbling and shady progress into war. Twilight on the Danube glimmers romantically with bluebearded armament manufacturers, handsome intelligence officers, youthful idealists, and tea-party gargle about actresses and the disturbed condition of Balkan affairs. By the time the fatal shot has been fired at Sarajevo, Publisher Reither has found and lost his last and greatest love, and his entire family have fallen victims to their own dreams and to the Empire's infectious blend of sloppiness and pride. The setting is mostly Prague, but Twilight on the Danube...