Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inquiry, he discovered that when someone died, the Fore buried the corpse, then, as a way of preserving his spirit, his relations dug him up and ate selected portions. Nothing might happen for years, but eventually the women, who were the main participants in this unsavory ritual, started the fatal giggles...
NONFICTION: Fatal Flowers, Rosemary Daniell ∙ Maybe, Lillian Hellman Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook ∙ The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger ∙ The Return of Eva Peron, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen ∙ Wilderness of Mirrors, David C. Martin
There are many reasons-some of them valid, some craven-for the aversion to a draft. The most basic is human nature: military service by definition is often distasteful, sometimes dangerous and occasionally fatal. Relinquishing a period of one's life to totalitarian noncoms is not exactly a month in the country. Lincoln's conscription in the Civil War caused homicidal riots all over the Union. But the American historical memory is not that long. The main reason for the aversion now is the wound of Viet Nam. Especially in an election year, politicians get sweating palms when...
...Auburn Street Wednesday night listening to friends analyze the events. But her eyes were open, not her ears. She ignored the clacking voices and muttered, "fatalistic...fatalistic...fatalistic." Tripping or not, it wasn't too hard to look around the streets of Cambridge and see what is coming next. Fatal. That's the only word...
...world which cares less about a nation's welfare or common interests with us than about its value in the life-or-death wrestling match between the two superpowers. In a world that has a third arena no one can ignore, the stupidity of such a view could be fatal. Looking at developing nations merely as pawns in the game against the U.S.S.R., with a blind eye to their internal affairs, is what first associated the repression in places like South Korea and South Vietnam with the American name across the world. Tying America's policies to individual leaders like...