Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...destroyed Bullard's hardware store, and that Bullard was not responsible for the explosion under the hood of Beeler's car. Another important fact is that there is no full-dress feud in The Feud. Beeler and Bullard are soon out of the picture, one with a fatal heart attack and the other with a nervous breakdown. But these misfortunes set in motion a series of coincidences and events...
...overnight after each jetliner flight so that the condition of the engine lubricant can be checked. The plugs that were returned to Flight 855 lacked the O ring seals, each of which costs about 10?, causing an oil leak under high-pressure operation, which eventually led to the near fatal engine seizures. Alarmingly, the jet had passed a preflight inspection test that uses air pressure to force the engines up to starting speed precisely to ensure that the oil pressure is normal. Making the en ire incident even more painful from Eastern management's point of view...
...same thing happened a year ago. The Crimson met UCLA in the first round, lost, and saw UCLA go on to win the tourney. When Harvard received its first invitation to the tournament three years ago, it was Peperdine that dealt the fatal blow...
...French slots, which cost at least 5 francs (70?) to play, have one startling and seemingly fatal limitation: they cannot pay off in money. Each carries a yellow plaque warning players that they can win only free games. The restriction, however, is roundly ignored. Winners need merely wink at barmen to collect their jackpots from the cash register. "All the café owners give money," asserts one player, who says he can pocket nearly $30 on a good day. Adds a proprietor: "That's true, but I don't give money to just anybody, only to people...
...star performer, Nastassia has set a pattern for her affairs: love beautifully, leave quickly. "I always fall in love while I'm working on a film," she says. "It's such an intense thing, being absorbed into the world of a movie. It's like discovering you have a fatal illness, with only a short time to live. So you live and love twice as deeply. Then you slip out of it, like a snakeskin, and you're cold and naked. What worries me is that when these loves die, they hardly leave traces on me. I wonder...