Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become totalitarians. They believed in Christianity and in man's imperfection. Hence the only kind of government that made sense to them was a government of checks and balances. All modern governments, except the American and British, have indulged in the totalitarian fallacy to a dangerous and often fatal degree. And even the British and Americans have recently given in to it under the pressure of discordant social forces...
American democracy's Big Show is over. With all but a few scattered Western returns in, Fatal Tuesday follows the pattern of every off-year election save that of 1934 since the Civil War--resurgence of the President's loyal opposition. The Republican Party, which in the heyday of the New Deal held but a third of Congress and carried but two states in the fight for the presidency, is once again on the threshold of national power. Senate Republicans, while still a clear minority, have risen from complete impotence to a challenging position by picking up at least nine...
...particular he warned the onslaught of "virus Pneumonia" which is apparently spreading. Although the disease is rarely, if ever, fatal, Dr. Bock pointed out that a loss of two to three weeks could be expected...
...ordered by her operatic coach to stay away from all the World Series games to keep her from ruining her voice by cheering. For the first time in a blue moon Blues Moaner Libby Holman is slated to sing in a Manhattan nightclub-ten years after the fatal shooting of her tobacco-rich husband Zachary Smith Reynolds. Again from Berlin came news that a dancer had found a hot corner in the impressionable heart of Adolf Hitler. Known professionally as La Jana, she was described as a former friend of the ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm. She is 32, dark-haired...
Luckily it is rarely fatal, but after a week or so of acute distress a patient is usually left shaky and washed out for several weeks. The disease chiefly attacks adolescents and young adults, often in groups such as schools, colleges, Army posts. Peak of the pneumonitis season seems to be in the late fall and winter, whereas most other respiratory diseases reach their peaks in February and March...