Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere, where friction provides the additional braking necessary to return them to earth. In the vicinity of the moon, the astronauts might be as long as a three-day journey from home. They could fall victim to minor malfunctions -like a deteriorating oxygen supply-that would not necessarily be fatal in an earth-orbital flight...
Americans must point to a new alliance with liberal elements; they must act on moral bases--out of compassion--because the alternative is fatal, Myrdal added...
...naval officer, navigator and amateur astronomer, customarily kept his Yorkshire temper and sizzling vocabulary in check. But, as revealed by his journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when the ship...
Many people make mistakes when a complex production such as this one goes wrong. In Dear World's case, high among the guilty is producer Alexander Cohen, who has hired all the people who make the fatal errors. While Cohen has gone with talented men who hold some of the best track-records in the business, he has hired them for the wrong show...
...charting his campaign, Nixon never lost sight of the fatal flaws that marred his 1960 contest with John F. Kennedy. As he wrote in Six Crises: "I spent too much time in the last campaign on substance and too little time on appearance. I paid too much attention to what I was going to say, and too little to how I would look." Slightly cynical, perhaps, but by reversing the emphasis, Nixon did, after all, manage...