Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alvin Schorr, a social work expert who had advised McGovern's Senate Committee on Nutrition, also warned that the proposal would be politically fatal and argued that it was much more feasible to reduce poverty by giving the poor a greater share of Social Security and similar benefits...
...wife Dorothy ("23 years, three months and one day"), who was killed in a plane crash last December while taking $10,000 in $100 bills to Chicago. Hunt also credits his wife with suggesting the book's ending. On the way to the airport for the fatal flight, he says, "she told me that the original ending was just too pat, that the good guys won too easily. She said. The evildoers of the world are not always punished, sometimes the son of a bitch gets away with it and the good people don't.' I dropped...
...course, Lon Nol will have some bad luck in the next five years. The bombing of the palace could have proved fatal, but fortunately it occurred on a Saturday (a good day) rather than a Monday (a very bad day). He may still be injured in an accident, though it will not be serious. But in 1977, his worst year, Lon Nol will cease to rule...
...MOST POWERFUL works of the exhibition are a series of brisk sketches and tense, tormented oils done during the fatal illness of his mistress Valentine Gode-Darel in 1914 and 1915. Hodler is obsessed with death throughout his career--the death of an earlier mistress in 1909 had been captured in a Munch-like oil full of looming and vertiginous space. Through the series, the curved, living lines of the woman's face grow harsh and geometrical, until a final version shows the corpse, bony and stiff, with the bedclothes around it indicated by a chaos of loose lines...
Ulstermen have never taken naturally to the political center, if only because they like a little fire and brimstone from their politicians. Moderates, like Ulster's former (1963-69) Unionist Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, too frequently seemed like moral Milquetoasts, beset by a fatal whiff of goodness. Now one encouraging sign is that both the Alliance and Labour parties have almost equal backing from Catholics and Protestants. Recent Alliance recruits include a number of Ulster's senior political figures, among them Sir Robert Porter, former Minister of Home Affairs, three mayors, five Senators and 70 local...