Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extending its routes west from Bismarck, N.D. to Seattle and Portland. Traffic was light. In some years, mail subsidies were 60% of Northwest's revenues. But Hunter made a reputation of flying his planes through bad weather-and over mountainous terrain-on schedule. Northwest also flew without a fatal passenger accident until construction bugs in their new Lockheed 14s spoiled this record with a crash in January 1938. Northwest's earnings cracked up too. They went into the red for two years...
...Convent of Our Lady of the Lake, where she was instructed in the duties of womanhood. But although she lived in Hollywood for 17 years and changed the color of her hair, she could never forget that she was really Guadaloupe Velez de Villalobos. Last week this fact proved fatal...
Defending his world's three-cushion championship in New York last week, Hoppe was jerking rather than punching through with his deft cue-and that was all but fatal in this most precise of billiard games. Once before he had battled a similar bugaboo that made him fidget around too long, taking aim. He conquered that by counting softly, "One, two, three," shooting on three. This time, he relied on silent concentration...
Hand in Glove (adapted from Gerald Savory's novel Hughie Roddis by the author and Charles K. Freeman; produced by Arthur Edison) commits many crimes but not the fatal one of dullness. A grim pathological thriller, it has a double focus on a young sex psychopath who murders young girls, and on an idiot boy whom the murderer tries to frame...
...General Bradley could see beyond the belching, jerking guns, the wallowing tanks, the struggling infantrymen. The armies on the south flank of the Allied line were moving faster than he, because they were exploiting a weakness which already existed. Bradley was busy creating a weakness-one which may be fatal to Germany...