Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Logic, the Prime Minister said, had proved fatal to parliamentary government. Logic, Churchill added without a smile, created the semicircular assemblies "which give every member not only a seat to sit in but often a desk with a lid to bang. . . and enable every individual or group to move around the center adopting various shades of pink according to how the weather changes." In an oblong chamber, where those who support the government face those who oppose it, "crossing the floor requires serious consideration...
...boldly and without delay. Do what is necessary-otherwise this will be done without you or even perhaps against you. . . . Declare war on this fatal regime and . . . demand the formation of a government backed by the people's confidence. Only such a government would be capable of creating the conditions for our Fatherland's honorable withdrawal from the war, and for insuring a peace which will not mean a calamity to Germany...
Thus a confederation is forever the creature, never the master of its members. It amounts to little more than an intricately formulated war-&-peace alliance. Its fatal flaw is that its strength is entirely borrowed-and on a demand note at that-from the nations that compose it. Either it acts as a vigilante committee for its strong members or, as in the case of the League, it does...
...sudden outbreak took only six days to develop epidemic fury, jumped from seven to 39 cases. A quick-striking, infectious virus disease, dengue (pro nounced denggy) is almost never fatal, but for a week or ten days it lays out its victims, causing high fever, rashes and painful swellings, severe pains in head, eyes, muscles, joints. Mosquitoes carry...
Russia. An Izvestia editorial warned Russians: "By no means should illusions be cherished that with Mussolini's going Fascism automatically perished. The alliance of Italian Fascism with Hitlerite Germany proved fatal for Italy. But it is just this alliance which will for some time yet support the tottering edifice of Italian Fascism. This is so because German troops are on the territory of Italy. . . . Nothing resembling a democratic, anti-Fascist coup d'état has taken place in Italy...