Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown's second game tier was inevitable. Harvard coach Bruce Munro had worried before the game about his team's tendency to give up corner kicks. Last week Princeton received 12 (and scored on one), and Munro knew a similar allowance to the more dangerous Bruins would be fatal...
...Fatal Faith. Age difference aside, Royster and Morris share a similar Southern outlook. They have an eye for the out-of-kilter detail, the endearing eccentricity that redeems even an opponent. Royster is a conservative, Morris a liberal; yet the politics of both are mellowed by an appreciation of human quality. Though he disagreed with many of Adlai Stevenson's views, Royster saluted his concession speech ("Too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh") in 1952: "I think that nothing better revealed in Mr. Stevenson a quality for leadership than the manner of his yielding...
...steer a course somewhere between despair and euphoria, to know its limits yet act decisively within them, to be conscious of the gradations of evil in the world without feeling compelled to try to eradicate them all. "A blind faith in total victory," he writes, "can be fatal because it assumes that evil exists in the world only by sufferance, that all it takes to destroy it is godlike power...
...Britain's application for membership. Many feared that France might deliver the coup de gráce right then and there, ending Britain's hopes of gaining entry any time in the near future. What came was a glancing blow that was calculated to prove just as fatal...
...Stalin first by demanding the postwar return of Polish territories annexed by Russia, then by calling for an investigation of the Katyn massacre of 4,253 Polish military prisoners. Fearful that Stalin was ready to break off relations with Britain, Churchill, alleges Hochhuth, authorized intelligence agents to arrange a fatal accident for a plane in which Sikorski was to fly from Cairo to London...