Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people and resources located on them, has in their military thinking a secondary importance. This attitude results in part from historic experience. The Russians, who live in a country of open frontiers, have learned over centuries that the sacrifice of lives, territory, and resources is not, in itself, fatal, provided that the political authority and its military arm remain intact to mount a counter-offensive at the appropriate moment. The attitude also derives in part from intense thinking about Kriegswissenschaft or voennaia nauka, the science of war, of which the Russians are today, now that the Germans have quit...
...Honeymoon would seem an especially hazardous undertaking. Like many Lardner stories, this account of an elderly couple's Florida vacation is told in '20s slang by an inarticulate character. The narrator here is a gabby, boorish husband who never really grasps that he is describing a near fatal crisis in his 50-year marriage. As he prattles lightly about painful events, the gap between his words and deeds becomes the basis for a classic black comedy...
...killed him. The drugs found in Presley's body, some medical observers noted, were not at lethal levels and his longtime abuse of medication probably made Presley tolerant of high amounts. Still, several of the drugs, taken in conjunction, could have interacted with each other and produced a fatal synergistic effect. And there is no doubt that, whatever his other problems, there was no medical justification for the voracious way Presley took drugs. At week's end, the Tennessee board voted unanimously to suspend Dr. Nick's license for three months-but only after praising...
August 30: The Republican Convention finally breaks its deadlock, and nominates Ronald Reagan. Reagan, in the excitement of the moment, suffers a fatal heart attack. Unwilling to deliberate further, and ignoring Constitutional provisions barring his election to a third term, the exhausted Convention selects Richard Nixon as its standard bearer. Not to be outdone by Carter, Nixon chooses the Dalai Lama as his running mate, saying that he hopes having an incarnate Buddha on the ticket will "allow the Republican Party to escape the wheel of death and rebirth...
...revolution, which at the outset had no visible leaders. But even in exile the Ayatullah was well known inside Iran for his uncompromising insistence that the Shah must go. When demonstrators began waving the Ayatullah's picture, the frightened Shah pressured Iraq to boot Khomeini out. It was a fatal blunder; in October 1978 the Ayatullah settled in Neauphle-le-Château, outside Paris, where he gathered a circle of exiles and for the first time publicized his views through the Western press...