Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wicked World. Had Khrushchev committed the fatal psychological error of protesting too much? When news of Powers' capture first broke, the reaction of many free-world nations was dismay and indignation at Washington. Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Mohammed Ikramullah stiffly declared that, if Soviet charges that Powers' flight began at Peshawar proved true, Pakistan would "lodge a strong protest with the Government of the U.S." With less justification, the Norwegian government did make a formal protest, asked the U.S. "to take all necessary steps to avoid that similar landings are planned in the future." In Japan, where...
They sprint up long ramps and scale aisles like mountain goats to get to their seats on time. They start cheering with the first pitch and continue to the last. So far this year, heart attacks have hit twelve San Francisco Giant fans; five were fatal. Last week City Coroner Henry W. Turkel pleaded for rooters with coronary histories to take things easier at the Giants' new Candlestick Park. But no one seemed to pay much attention to the warning: the Giants were in first place in the National League, thanks in good part to a dour Negro named...
...test pilots had purposely flown test Electras into turbulent air at high speeds. Apparently because the planes' struts had not been weakened, nothing happened. But when company engineers, in wind-tunnel tests, purposely weakened nacelle struts to about the same condition as those on the crashed Electras, the fatal chain reaction began. The company had its answer. During all of this testing time, the Federal Aviation Agency had allowed airlines to fly Electras so long as their speed was held to a conservative 329 m.p.h. at 15,000 feet, thus removing one of the known factors in the trouble...
...Confessions of a Young Man, George Moore wrote: "Ireland is a fatal disease-fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen." Moore's diagnosis lies at the heart of this exciting new novel by Gabriel Fielding, who, under his real name of Alan Barnsley, is a practicing British physician. In earlier books, Brotherly Love and In the Time of Greenbloom, Author Fielding dealt with the family background of John Blaydon, a British schoolboy, and carried him through an adolescent love affair. When the girl was brutally raped and murdered by a wandering psychopath, John's sanity was saved...
...greater freedom of opportunity in Britain than before-a bright but poor man like Lewis Eliot (or C. P. Snow) can make it on brains alone-there is fully as much snobbery in the corridors of power. The wrong word, the wrong wife, the wrong attitude can be fatal-and there are many failures and near failures loitering in the corridors to prove it. But the successes dominate the scene, and they provide a fascinating contrast with most U.S. novels about organization life: they do not feel guilty about being successful. Power can corrupt, and Snow warns that...