Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration has chosen to regard Arab nationalism as identical with Communism, or at least as equally dangerous to the West. The truth of the matter is that our policy is as false as it is fatal...
...Kennedy declared that the U.S. stood on the brink of war, while Columnist Joe Alsop cried that another Munich was in the offing. Some argued that it would be madness to send in Western forces to save President Chamoun's regime in Lebanon; others said it would be fatal cowardice...
...affair among the Lebanese themselves. Last week, pressed to replace his ineffectual army commander with one who would turn all guns on the rebels, President Chamoun argued that for Lebanon's brigade-size army to take the offensive would be to risk a defeat "which would be fatal to the morale of the army and the people...
...Charles S. Swift, the skipper, looked up to see the sub Stickleback dead ahead at 200 yds. Stickleback had just made a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein, was supposed to have dived to a safe depth. Skipper Swift reversed all engines, but was too late to avoid chopping a fatal 4-ft.-wide gash in Stickleback's side. Before sinking to the bottom, Stickleback managed to surface under its own power, making it possible for all 82 crewmen to escape unhurt. Silverstein's sea lawyers cheerfully gave the submarine all the blame, and Stickleback's skipper even...
...Because Ernst was openly working for Trujillo, many witnesses greeted him with suspicious silence. Among them: Air Force Sergeant Harold French, an old friend of Murphy's, who helped install the Beechcraft's extra gas tanks and was with Murphy at Zahns Airport until noon on the fatal day. Murphy told French about the trip in detail, and French told the FBI ("Gerry said that gasoline would be available to him at Monte Cristi in 5-gal. cans...