Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final tempestuous session. Then, perhaps, he had conferred with the King and Marshal Badoglio. One fact stood out: the Fascist Grand Council met the day before the resignation, its first meeting since Italy entered the war. Mussolini, the wily politician who had made just one big. but fatal, mistake in his fustian career, might hope that lip service to legality would pay him. One unkind rumor had him relinquishing his power on condition that his personal safety be assured. Another rumor had him and his chief party colleagues arrested while seeking escape to Germany, then put under house guard near...
...Italian drama and opera, il furbo [applied to Mussolini-TIME, June 21] ... is a not-too-sinister trickster and cheat whose schemes, for a time, prosper greatly. Invariably, however, he overextends himself and becomes involved in a fatal tangle. Only the intervention of providence, or some powerful protector who can make selfish use of his talents, saves him from final disaster. He emerges with his life, but shorn of all his gains...
...Stopping of Lend-Lease aid to Turkey, curtailing of the purchase of Turkish exports (some of which Britain has been taking at a loss) might be a fatal blow to Turkey's precarious economy...
...ticklish business of getting a needle into the caudal canal through a puncture just above the coccyx at the base of the spine. The mis take of getting needle and anesthetic into the spinal canal, a little higher up, or between the wrong layers of tissue, may prove fatal. Milder risks are a broken needle in the caudal canal, or a useless injection under the skin...
...Fritsche [official radio commentator] said in a broadcast that 10% of the armament industry has been destroyed in a raid on Dortmund. Fritsche said no such thing. This also applies to the catastrophe of the Möhne Dam. Twenty and 40 thousand were mentioned as the number of fatal casualties. The true figures were published. ... It is a deplorable fact . . . but we can admit it quite frankly...