Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...malignant growth and advised: "So long as you are able to hold on to your job, there is no need for you to worry. When you become totally incapacitated give me a ring and I'll see what I can do to alleviate your suffering in the last fatal stage of your illness...
England has not adopted the 18-year limit despite her urgent need for men in North Africa. For us a lowering of the draft age, whether or not we end up in Africa, Europe, or the Orient, would be a fatal move which would not help the army and which would hurt the nation's future...
Even of those who remain convinced that going to war would be fatal tot he cause of American democracy, almost a majority have given up hope for success in the fight for peace. This form of defeatism led one Boston columnist tacitly to admit yesterday that he could be convinced of the merits of fighting if only the Administration would hire some better showmen than bumbling Mr. Willkie and dull Mr. Stimson. Another "Over There" in his opinion would give the needed touch of crusading spirit to the cause macabre...
...isolation-minded. It is a healthy antidote to the uncertainty and plain rumor-mongering current in so much of the discussion by the man-in-the-street. Above all, it may prove a last encouraging refuge if the day comes when America stands alone. Thoroughly understood in its fatal deficiencies as preacher of one decision, it should do much good as a factual background for any decision...
...cracked vertebrae, had to be carried. Flying from a field long criticized as too tight, too thoroughly bordered by obstructions, Russell Wright had come off better than anyone had a right to expect. He had also figured in the first of eight serious U.S. airline crashes (five of them fatal) since last August that could definitely be charged to mechanical failure. Weather was the No. 1 villain in all the rest...