Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their elders went in for cosmetics with manic names like Fatal Apple and Havoc. They also favored detachable daintiness features and phantom crotches. In ads as expressive as dreams, fathers forfeited their children's love because of denture breath, and women exclaimed: "Don't expect me to marry you with a mouthful of cavities...
...miracle, they rushed from their laboratories into the political fray to oppose the Government plan to control atomic research. They huddled in private, wrote and talked to Congress, cried in the press that something must be done. Some of them, convinced that nationalization of atomic research would be a fatal error, even talked of violating the Army's security regulations to force a showdown...
Salvador Dali, who will try anything once and usually does, tried designing the well-dressed woman of 2045. She looked a little like a scarecrow with a fatal fascination for crows, a little like a collision of paper pinwheels (see cut). Her accessories included a big crutch with a zipper (to serve as a handbag, also as spiritual and moral support) and a little crutch with strings (to lift the skirt...
...national savings for the nationalization of the mines, my counsel to you is to reject it. If the appeal is national savings for a state-owned merchant marine or inland transport system or medical service, I would turn it down. I believe that nationalization is a fatal policy, fatal to enterprise, fatal to efficiency, fatal to the independent spirit of the worker...
...Boric acid, the old home remedy stand by, got some hard words in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It can be fatal when it gets into a baby's for mula by mistake and, says Dr. E. H. Watson of Ann Arbor, Mich.: "As a lavage to remove pus from the eye, a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate is much more effective." His advice: throw that boric acid out of the medicine cabinet...