Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...numbered and registered, is turned loose to roam. At the age of 18 months, fighting bulls are rounded up for the all-important tienta. It is the only trial they get before entering a ring. If they got any more, the bulls, diabolically quick to learn, would have a fatal advantage over a bullfighter. Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador. On the other hand, heifers, which will never get a chance at a torero, are worked to exhaustion to study theif future value as mothers...
...night, and his refusal to make morning appearances have brought forth the rumor that he never gets up before noon. He denies this strenuously and insists that he rises at 9 a.m. every morning. He admits, however, that he is haunted by the tragedy of Descartes, who contracted a fatal "early morning virus" while in the service of the Queen of Sweden. Berlin, therefore, stays inside with his telephone and his breakfast until the sun is safely...
...Wertham's subject is murder. It seems that more people are killed each year by other people than by tuberculosis. Taking murder purely as a fatal disease, Dr. Wertham examines the role of psychiatry in homicide. He connects the two in the following manner: "Murder grows from negative emotions, from fear and hatred, from anxiety and anger, from frustration and desperation, and resentment. The science of emotions is psychiatry...
...skip these chapters, if you will, and, if you will, read only the excerpts from actual testimony. This is the meat of the matter, and the point must not be missed. The point is that a private enterprise system is making the fatal mistake of impinging on the one really sacred piece of private property: private opinion. If nothing else, Rogge's book is a reminder of a truth we must not forget; that in America, freedom is, among other things, a state of mind...
...this, Churchill's diplomacy is a superb combination of tact and inexorable firmness. While never forgetful of the President's constitutional limitations, Churchill also never forgets that such limitations might well prove fatal. "The President should bear . . . very clearly in mind," he instructs British Ambassador Lord-Lothian, that the U.S. cannot afford "any complacent assumption . . . that they will pick up the debris of the British Empire . . ." His own remarks to Roosevelt are sometimes genially humble ("I am so grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your...