Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the exact words in Luke 23:34 are 'Forgive them; for they know not what they do.' The Germans know very well what they do and have known it for a long time. About forgiveness the British people require no lectures: they forgive and forget with fatal alacrity. But some erring sheep among us still associate forgiveness with contrition and repentance. It will be well enough to invite us not to be vindictive about flying bombs when flying bombs are no more and there has been some sign of repentance, if not retribution...
Human tuberculosis germs treated with the mold were injected in 24 guinea pigs. Six died of T.B. The other 18 did not contract the disease, although an equal dose of the germs, not treated with the mold, was almost 100% fatal to a group of control animals...
...friend, she has found Italians hungry ("For the first time in Rome an American feels a little uncomfortable before the hungry eyes of the inhabitants"), eager to regain self-respect and self-government, but resigned to paying "in humiliation, impoverishment and a long status of probation for fatal mistakes of fascist policy...
Jack Wallace, Coach Stahl's ace hurler, "brought it on himself." Jack came down off the mound to make two misplays in the fatal sixth, and that proved to be the ball game...
High voltages are least likely to be,fatal because they do not cause heart fibrillation, and because they usually throw the victim clear of the circuit. Some 88% of those shocked by 40,000 volts or more recover. Engineer Poehler suggests that to free an individual from a live circuit it is better to use one's foot than a hand; the current is then less likely to reach the heart or respiratory nervous system...