Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Machado hops into his tub at 4:30 each morning. But his son-in-law, Senor Emilio Obregon, who has the room and the bathroom just above, is less spry. So is his wife. So are their children. At 4:30 a. m. on the fatal morning last week, the Obregon family were sound asleep in their beds when the bomb went off in their bathroom. Potent, the explosion tore through the bathroom wall, wrecked Son- in-Law Obregon's expensive plate-glass shower bath, hurled some of the bits of glass with such terrific force...
...better half of the known world, a position he shared with Alexander's halfbrother, the half-wit Philip Arrhidaeus, the young Alexander might also expect to be deified like his father. He was not only born a king, but practically also a god. The enormous inheritance proved fatal. The regents fought each other, turned the empire upside down. In that cockeyed world no one was surprised when one of the regents quietly murdered half-wit Philip, Roxane, and Alexander, who was then twelve. In ten more years the Empire, which stretched from the Balkans to India, was fractured...
...scoot across the bay in 6 min. instead of paying 21? for the 40-min. trip on one of the two boat-&-train ferry systems. But California financiers and airmen are optimistic about Air Ferries, point with pride to its record of 99% completion of schedule, no fatal accidents in the first year...
Last May 10 the American Medical Association published a thoroughgoing study on "the hazard of explosion of anesthetics." The report noted that "the perfect form of anesthesia, free from all dangers, has not yet been discovered." And: "The chief hazards . . . that have to be compared are fatal failure of respiration, syncope [serious fainting] and collapse, postanesthetic necrosis [decay] of the liver (chiefly from chloroform), post-operative pneumonia, persistent hiccup, flares and fires from ether, the bursting of cylinders containing any gas under pressure, and particularly cylinders of oxygen or nitrous oxide if the valve is oiled, and, finally, explosions...
...have flown fast enough to produce tail-flutter. But at slow speeds, they discovered, the plane's low wing could set up wicked eddying currents which wrenched the tail up and down, destroying all control. This they called "buffeting," and concluded it had sent the Junkers into its fatal dive...