Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rush. But this month the aneurysm grew rapidly. The elastic outer layer of the aorta was being stretched thinner and thinner, with increasing danger that it might burst and loose a fatal flood of blood into the abdominal cavity. Dr. Antenucci ordered X rays, which showed that the aneurysm had increased in size, and within a week had grown bigger than an orange. The beat of the blood pulsing through it could be felt by the doctor's hand. And it was in an especially dangerous location, below the branching of the kidney arteries (see diagram). It was time...
Last week the prestigious, 3,000-member New York Academy of Medicine reported in effect that New York State's-and most of the nation's-abortion laws are hypocritical, and would be a farce if they did not prove fatal to so many women. Most doctors, said the academy's committee on public health, are so afraid of prosecution that safe abortions in hospitals have become fewer and fewer, while dangerous, illegal abortions have become ever more common...
Sacheverell Sitwell wrote of his sister: "Her love is poetry, she lives within a phrase." Yet she could desert poetry for a decade to nurse her friend and former governess through a long and fatal illness. She admired and championed fellow poets, but seldom the women they married. In her opinion, "the wives of poets should be selected by a committee of other poets." Even worse than poets' wives were critics...
Harvard coach Bob Pickett will be babysitting for a total of six sophomores when he takes his wrestling team to Franklin and Marshall today. Ordinarily, a half-dozen first-year men would be a sure sign of fatal weakness; for the Crimson, however, they may mean just the opposite...
...tend to accept Tri Quang's assertions that he is not a Communist or working with them. Still, there can be little doubt that the Communists have infiltrated the Buddhists to some extent. Besides, illusions may well be more dangerous than infiltration. Tri Quang is guilty of the classic, fatal error: he seems to believe that he and his fellow Buddhists could "handle" the Communists...