Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fatal Flaws...
...pulmonary vascular disorders." But these disorders, Dr. Goodwin told the Louisiana Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, are extremely common. In their most dramatic and catastrophic form, they are called pulmonary embolisms, and they may be almost as common as the single heart attack that proves quickly fatal. Their mechanism is similar-a blood clot traveling through the veins, usually from a leg, blocks one of the great arteries carrying blood from the heart to the lungs-and their effects are just as deadly...
...five-year study of the R.C.A.F.'s fatal accidents, said Dr. Manning, postmortem examination of the heart was possible in 24 cases, and eight pilots were found to have had coronary artery disease severe enough to be considered a probable cause of the accident. More significantly, said Dr. Manning, four of these eight had previously shown ECG abnormalities, even though the trouble had not been severe enough to ground them immediately...
...Glory." Clearly, Billy's imagination has been spoon-fed and molded from childhood by radio, telly, and newsreels: it is, alack, the imagination of his whole generation--as trite and enfeebled as the bourgeois lives around him. Chained in Alger-like dreams of limitless possibility, Billy never learns this fatal secret...
Clarkson scored its winning goal last night at 4:21 of the fatal session, as Tom Hurley single-handedly stole the puck from four Crimson skaters at the Harvard blue line, and skated in alone to beat goalie Brandy Sweitzer cleanly...