Word: fatale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rusty encrustations of habit, custom and tradition as he elucidates his proofs that the earth revolves around the sun. This Galileo is a glutton of food, wine and ideas. As one character says, he has "thinking bouts." As Brecht sees it, this very appetite is Galileo's fatal flaw. His desire to save his skin ranks above any devotion to a pure priesthood of science, any will to suffer death for the truths he had discovered...
...Robert W. Kistner last week reported that he had prescribed oral contraceptives containing the synthetic equivalent of the female hormone progesterone to 66 women with signs of precancerous change of the endometrium (lining of the womb). The endometrium is a fairly common cancer site, with at least 3,700 fatal cases expected in the U.S. this year, mainly among women who fail to ovulate and therefore do not secrete progesterone. But among Dr. Kistner's 66 patients, some treated as long as nine years ago, the precancerous condition was corrected, and cancer itself never developed...
...activity, and the answer seems simple: haul in the tether. But in frictionless space, the free-floating astronaut is orbiting the spaceship as it circles the earth, and any attempt to pull him in would make him rotate around it so fast that he would be ultimately subjected to fatal G forces. He would also be moving at an uncontrollable speed when he finally reached-and crashed into-the spacecraft...
Birnbaum and Ruhe say that Hale told them, in Austin, "You guys are in big trouble. You committed the fatal mistake; you created a huge coalition against you. The mayor has called the governor of this state and the President of the United States...
Dr.Fisher said that one student caused a near-fatal car accident a few months after his "trip," when a pair of on-coming headlights seemed to become a hundred headlights. In the other case, a girl suddenly saw all the buildings. around her melt into the sidewalk...