Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually built, the railway not only spanned North Manchuria, but branched off from the Russian-built junction, Harbin, to traverse South Manchuria and end at Port Arthur. That fatal branch, the great Imperial Russian Minister, Count Witte, later admitted, largely provoked the Russo-Japanese war. Japan, when she had whipped the Russians, seized their southern branch from Port Arthur as far up as Changchun (140 miles below Harbin) and made it her own great, imperial iron road, the Japanese South Manchuria Railway...
Litvinov. For the Soviet Union, round, cherubic Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov offered a billion dollars' worth of Russian orders for the World's industrial products-but with the fatal string attached that Russia can buy only on credit, something the World is unwilling to give...
...probably the most important in the play-is the selecting of a jury. This is no ordinary case-not a case where the jury must decide "Did he or did he not fire the fatal shot?"-but a case where the physical facts will be fairly obvious, and decision depends upon fine points of law and morals, could be easily influenced by prejudice...
...Bureau responds with a shocked innocence, that such things have always been, and implies that the pre-final period is a rather nasty time to bring it all up anyway. Meanwhile, cocking its ear towards the Yard, the Bureau professes to find a murmur against an intolerance so fatal...
...cool encouragement. When the fish were well cooked and the government overturned, Patrick was hit on the head in a riot and found he remembered Marie very well. But before they had time for a happy ending, Patrick's old Etonian spirit got him into a last and fatal scrape...