Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evelyn Nesbit was set for a Broadway comeback this week. The famously fatal beauty, now 58 and a plump-faced grandmother, was to try her luck as a singer at a spot called Tony Pastor's Uptown...
...Fatal Firing. With a handful of mediocre ballplayers, one or two stalwarts and ex-Boy Wonder Bucky Harris as manager, he tub-thumped his team until he got the nickname "Rah Rah" Cox. For no apparent reason, the Phillies won some games ; until the end of May they were in the first division and the gate boomed...
Hitler kept his eye on his homeland. In February 1938, he sent for Chancellor Schuschnigg, ranted and demanded. Then, on March 12 at 5:40 in the morning, German troops crossed the frontier, drove without opposition on Vienna. A bemused Britain and a sick France chose to see nothing fatal in the rape...
...disease, because only house dogs get it. The sick dog usually comes from a household where someone has a cold. The illness begins with a sore throat, mouth and bronchial infection with a little fever. Most dogs recover in a week, but some go on to a frequently fatal encephalitis with convulsions, tics, paralysis, dizziness, forgetfulness or blindness. Of 309 cases of house dog disease Dr. Whitney reports in detail, 58 died of encephalitis...
After the war he was the most powerful influence in making the post-Napoleonic peace because "he saw, perhaps more clearly than anyone else, that a policy which is a half-hearted compromise between revenge and appeasement is fatal. ... He and he alone, after months of hard work succeeded in hammering out a solution of the reparations problem, ruthlessly scaling down the demands ... to be sure that France could pay without undue strain what he ordered. . . . Europe owed to this dual functioning of common sense the longest peace it has known for centuries, and that is surely a greater claim...