Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before a nation which instinctively shies from total centralization and hates militarization even more. To U.S. citizens they trumpeted the warning of the founding fathers. James Madison wrote in 1788: "On the smallest scale a standing military force has its inconveniences. On an extensive scale its consequences may be fatal . . . inauspicious to [the nation's] liberties...
...Professors Elton Mayo, George F. F. Lombard, John B. Fox, and Jerome F. Scott. While the men concede that the financial loss in labor turnover and absenteeism resulting from neglect of worker morale can be over-looked by firms enjoying wartime prosperity, they assert that the defect may prove fatal to many companies in the highly competitive period expected after hostilities cease...
...after Los Angeles the campaign suddenly stalled. After the San Francisco and Los Angeles speeches, many Republicans feared that Tom Dewey had fallen into the fatal Willkie "Me Too" trap. (In San Francisco, Dewey had done nothing more shocking than to say, in effect, that if the U.S. has discarded Adam Smith's economics it cannot continue to hang, tooth & nail, to Thomas Jefferson's politics. In Los Angeles, he had merely said that if the U.S. is to have Social Security, it should be there for all.) But some GOPsters shook their heads, and Hatchet-man Harold...
...permit thorough follow-up studies. Both have the advantage that they take less time per treatment than insulin shock (electric shock is the cheapest type) and do not require watching a patient's every breath for hours - insulin shock patients may go into irreversible shock and fatal convulsions. Both metrazol and electric shock have the disadvantage that the "fits" they produce are violent and may cause a patient to hurt himself. As many as half the metrazol patients used to get small fractures of vertebrae and other bones, but lately some doctors have used curare (TIME...
When Dr. Sabin bestowed the certificates, 850 fellow convicts whistled and cheered. They learned that 300 had volunteered for the experiments, even when told that the diseases, while rarely fatal, were violent, painful and feverish. Some of the certificates went to men still weak and shaky from fever. Seventeen of them had to be presented in the prison's isolation ward...