Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early campaign strategy gave ample reason for optimism. Determined to shuck his loser's image, he entered six primaries, won them all- frightening off Michigan's Governor George Romney before the balloting even began in New Hampshire, and forcing New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller into fatal blunders of indecision. California's Governor Ronald Reagan was never a real threat; besides, after the 1964 Goldwater disaster, the G.O.P.'s centrist and progressive wings wanted nothing more to do with the chimeras of the right. Nixon won almost effortlessly in Miami Beach, and without tearing...
...Becker said that Nixon is too unpopular in the state to be a threat to Wallace's constituency. According to a spring poll conducted by Becker, 48 per cent of Massachusetts voters have an unfavorable opinion of Nixon. Pollsters consider any negative rating over 25 per cent a fatal omen for a state-wide candidate...
...equivalent of the CIA, shot himself in his office. The government explanation: he was despondent over an "incurable depressive illness." On Oct. 15, a promising young official in the Economics Ministry hanged himself. On Oct. 16, a woman working in the Federal Press and Information Office took a fatal overdose of drugs. On Oct. 18, Bundeswehr Lieut. Colonel Johannes Grimm, 54, working in the Alarm and Mobilization Section of the Defense Ministry, shot himself. He, too, said the government, was despondent over an incurable disease. On Oct. 23, it was announced that a senior clerk in the Defense Ministry...
...pursue this ambiguity faithfully: Nolan's professionalism is allowed to lapse into bursts of more conventional anger and passion. This is a concession to history, since the real Captain Nolan seems to have been as tempermental and irrational as his superiors, a fact which was largely responsible for the fatal Charge itself. But it is a concession which obscures the most interesting action of the story, which is the frightfully painful transition from the age of chivalry to that of total war--from Waterloo to Verdun...
...Melbourne, Australia, Lawrence Edward Hannell, a 21-year-old laborer on trial for the fatal stabbing of a 77-year-old widow, faced a maximum sentence of death. Hannell had earlier pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Dr. Allen A. Bartholomew, Psychiatric Superintendent of Melbourne's Pentridge Prison, testified that he had examined Hannell, found him to be an XYY. The imbalance, coupled with mental retardation, an aberrant brainwave pattern and evidence of neurological disorder, led Bartholomew to conclude that when Hannell killed the widow, "he did not know that what he was doing was wrong." After deliberating...