Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight now going on directed against fascism? If so, is it not necessary to condemn fascism without equivocation to resist it effectively? Are not half-hearted measures fatal, as they are doomed to failure and hasten the extension to the rest of the world of the social and economic system which already exists in Germany, Italy, and Spain...
While the war issue is considered vital, the Teachers' Union made it clear that their essential aim was to act as a labor union and that it would be fatal to their existence to split on what to them must be a secondary matter...
Colonel Burton Oliver Lewis, second in command at the Proving Ground, tried putting his arm around Mr. Barlow's shoulder. It was a fatal gesture. Mr. Barlow, without waiting for his bomb, exploded. He shouted: "I'm on the spot. I'm going to get the horselaugh of the whole nation. I'm going. . . ." Into his car he hopped, drove fiercely away, abandoning glmite, goats, goatherds, photographers, Congressmen and Colonel Lewis...
...analysis requires listener, analyst, and editor all in the same person. . . . The trouble is that the important stuff is strewn at random among the trash, and lots of times discernible only by its absence, as in the case of the "Allied change of mind." To get weary is therefore fatal for the post listener as I experienced when CBS and UP picked up Nazi Admiral Luetzow's statement about the scuttling of the Nazi destroyers at Narvik. As a rule the admiral talks so humdrum that he deserves only one quarter of an ear but that time everybody...
...call on my friends. . . ." Those words were a fatal blunder. By introducing a personal factor into so grave a debate Mr. Chamberlain gave his opponents a club which they wielded mercilessly from that moment on. Most effective use of it was made by hoary Lloyd George, who rapped out: "It is not a question of who is the Prime Minister's friend. It is a far bigger issue. The Prime Minister must remember that he has met this foe of ours in peace and in war and he always has been worsted. He appealed for sacrifice from the nation...