Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more loss will just about finish the Harvard soccer team in the race for the Ivy League championship. The same applies to Princeton. Even a tie in today's game at Princeton would be near fatal for both squads...
...uterus used to be the most common site of fatal cancer in women. Today, thanks mainly to early detection with the Papanicolaou smear, it is far less deadly. "With 44,000 new cases expected next year, there will be an estimated 14,000 deaths. The A.C.S. believes that an annual "Pap" smear test for all 58 million women...
...defeat would immediately and most joyously be recognised by the pro-Goldwater forces as the defeat of a dedicated enemy. In the wake of San Francisco, the forces trying to recall the Republican party to its senses are all too weak already; Keating's loss would perhaps be fatal. I hope no one assumes that an all-powerful Democratic party would be fine for the United States; like any one-party domination of the country, it would be disastrous...
...parallel to the American Revolution, in that it, too, was a war for independence. His references to slaves almost invariably mention their great loyalty and contentment. This, the third and last volume, bears the title Jefferson Davis: Tragic Hero, and Strode writes in his introduction: "I can find no fatal 'flaw' in the Davis character like to that which Shakespeare gives his heroes to bring about their own ruin, unless it be a passion he shared with the classic Greeks: an almost fanatical belief in freedom in government...
...CHILDREN: "You must never expect the very young to have a sense of humor of their own. Children are acutely risible, stirred to laughter by dozens of human mishaps, preferably fatal. They can understand the points of jokes, so long as the joke is not on them. Their egos...