Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bishops recently won from Rome an extended approval of simpler annulment procedures, which, among other things, no longer demand that a favorable decision by one matrimonial court always be confirmed by a second court. Moreover, more and more diocesan marriage tribunals recognize "psychic incapacity" in either partner as a fatal defect in the original marriage contract-an interpretation that has led to a sharp rise in the number of annulments granted. The liberality of the courts, however, can vary widely: in Brooklyn last year there were 575 annulments, in Boston only five...
...alive." He had finally, of course, yielded and spent twelve days in Memorial in late September and early October for treatment of phlebitis, the painful inflammation of the veins in his left leg that has bothered him off and on since 1964. It could at any time cause a fatal blood clot to travel upward in the bloodstream through his heart to the lungs...
...CURRENT "anti-corruption campaign" in South Vietnam may be the final and fatal development in the Thieu regime's two-year struggle for increased American military and economic aid. The struggle has been littered with deceptions--between Vietnamese officials and American intelligence groups, and between these groups and Congress...
...Fatal Delay. Breast lumps are sometimes discovered by doctors during routine examinations and occasionally by women's husbands or lovers. But most suspicious growths or such other signs of possible cancer as the sudden inversion of a nipple or puckering of breast tissue are initially spotted by the victims themselves -by accident or during self-examinations (see "Cancer: Self-Examination" page 110). Finding them is made more difficult by the fact that tumors, especially small ones, rarely cause pain or feel sensitive to the touch. "I wish breast cancers did hurt," says Dr. Guy Robbins, acting chief...
...there was something there, but I didn't want to touch it." Her doctor dissuaded her from further delay. In the past, frightened women often waited as long as a year before reporting a suspicious lump to their doctors; if the tumor was malignant, that delay was usually fatal. Now, says Robbins, as a result of widespread educational campaigns by the American Cancer Society, the average time between discovery and a visit to the doctor is down to 2½ months-still a dangerously long though obviously shrinking interval...