Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...symptoms were nearly fatal to Harvard during the opening five minutes of the contest as the Friars put three quick ones past an ailing Jim Murray. But Cleary's "Comeback Kids" have shown remarkable recuperative powers all season long, and were able to snap out of the trance...
...second half featured a see-saw battle, with offsetting performances by Brown, who finished with 11 grabs and nine points, and Tony Jenkins, who captained the Crimson cause with 14 rebounds and 17 points. But, as usual, the final few seconds proved fatal to Harvard's hardwood heartstoppers, with Desvigne following in a long line of enemy spoilers...
Then a near-fatal car accident clouded the government's position even further. Robert T. Griffin, the special GSA administrator for the Kennedy Library, was hit by a car Thursday while crossing a Washington street, and is in satisfactory condition, but unable to comment...
This ethic of blind loyalty was the fatal flaw in the Confucian tradition. A young official served at the grace of the emperor, not China, because, for him, the emperor was the very essence of China. During the Opium War--China's disastrous contact with the naked force of Western imperialism--complete alteration of battle results was common. The deceptions protected individual officers in the eyes of the emperor at the expense of the entire people--but then "the people" was only a vague concept in the Confucian tradition. The ruling hierarchy could not handle conflicts greater than relations between...
...enfant terrible of French letters. She is finishing up her ninth novel, which she describes as "not a love story. It's about an obsession, and based partly in the U.S." Sagan is an ailing 38. Her life has been scarred with drama: two divorces, a near-fatal auto accident, a bout with habitual gambling. Dividing her time between a Paris apartment and a Normandy house, Sagan is still planning, as she announced last year, to live in Ireland, at least for half the year. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Irish Republic exempts writers...