Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their hands. Who can doubt but that Pollard would rather have met the death a thousand times. None that knew him will ever doubt. Neither of his companions but that shrank from the heart-rending trial. So they were compelled again to cast lots that who should draw the fatal trigger. As if the fate would have it, the awful die turned upon Captain Pollard, [who] for a long time declared that he could never do it, but finally had to submit. Coffin then called to them to come near whilst he breathed a parting message to his dear mother...
...nowhere in this hemisphere are there so many people so poor as in Haiti (pop. 6 million; per capita income, less than $300), and thus so eager to scrape together as much as $1,500 for the trip to Florida. The passage is usually unpleasant, sometimes fatal. Raymond Antoine, 46, is a Krome Avenue North inmate who spent five weeks in a small boat with 148 fellow Haitians. Asked why he persevered, he said, "Misė, miseė [Poverty, poverty!] My eight children are starving. I have to get work, money to feed them from here...
...modern civil servant. Indeed, he served 15 years with the parks and recreation department before getting elected to the city council in 1970. Slight (5 ft. 6 in.) and unobtrusive, he has the muzzy charm of a maitre d' and avoids controversies as if they were fatal diseases. As a Democrat in a city where his party has a 5-to-1 lead in registrations, Caliguiri (pronounced Cal-i-jeery) would be favored for reelection. But the diffident mayor is so popular that barring disaster, he is a shoo-in for a second four-year term next November...
...certain." From his perspective on the bridge, the approaching Prowler looked "not in the right position" for a landing, yet "there was no early indication he should have been waved off." There are signs that the plane's crew tried to escape during their fatal career down the flight deck. Said a Nimitz crewman: "They found one of the fliers burned in his seat with his hand still clutching the ejector handle. He had pulled it, but by then the plane was crashing...
...studies completed this year once again shortened the list of food items safe to eat. In early January, Dr. Paul Oglesby '38, dean of admissions at the Med School, published the results of a 23-year study linking highcholesterol food with the incidence of fatal heart disease. A couple of months later, Dr. Brian MacMahon, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, published the results of a seven-year study which found that coffee drinkers are more than twice as likely as non-drinkers to contract cancer of the pancreas...