Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half, Harvard was forced to move against the wind, but nevertheless continued to dominate play in the Princeton end. Princeton converted a lone penalty kick to make the score 6-3, but their inability to penetrate Harvard territory with any consistency proved fatal...
...only eight voted for it, while 19 Republicans supported the bill and 15 helped kill it. Negative votes were cast by such normally opposing Senators as Democrats J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and James Eastland of Mississippi and Republicans Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Paul Fannin of Arizona. The fatal vote came after more than nine hours of acrimonious debate and while Senators were yearning to get away for the weekend. Thirty-two Senators were absent...
Still, no one blamed the collapse of the U.S. strategy on the peccadilloes of a few Persian Gulf sheikdoms. Peking played a big role by maintaining that it would never come to the U.N. while the Nationalists remained. But the fatal blow may have been struck by the White House. Once Richard Nixon had announced his plans to travel to the Forbidden City, it was almost inconceivable that the U.S.'s allies would queer their own chances for a rapprochement with Peking by rallying round an outdated U.S. commitment to Mao's old foe, Chiang Kaishek. Then there was Kissinger...
...George Jackson was later to do in California, 16-year-old Albert Bradford sold whatever legal rights of self-defense he had in the Missouri court system for the promise of a deal. Like Jackson, he was to discover that the promise was not merely false but almost fatal...
Doctors have long recognized that anaesthetics should be used only with extreme care. Some patients have allergic reactions from anaesthesia, and in rare cases the effects are fatal. There are now indications that anaesthesia may also affect the unborn. Writing in Anesthesiology, a team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine report their suspicion that pregnant medical personnel whose work exposes them to anaesthetics may have miscarriages as a result...