Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although Harvard hung tough, Lehigh's free throw parade, combined with some sloppy Crimson play, ultimately proved fatal for the cagers...
...those cuts, Miller added some zingers of his own: elimination of funding to aid highway safety; deep, possibly fatal reductions in the Public Health Service's organ-transplant network; and the end of many child abuse-prevention grants. He would also eliminate Amtrak subsidies, rejected by Congress this year because it would effectively end long-haul passenger trains...
...failure to report fully her and her husband's incomes, found that she had committed technical violations but did not take further action. Ferraro has been unable to learn whether the Justice Department probe will end before the 1986 Senate campaign, and decided that the uncertainty would be fatal. Said she: "If the investigation was still pending, the issue would be Geraldine Ferraro...
...American eagle emblem, selected at the division's creation in 1942 as befitting its military mission: "To crush its enemies by falling upon them like a thunderbolt from the skies." This time there seemed to be no enemy but misfortune, and the Eagles had become victims of their own fatal plunge...
Wisely, Glass and Moran have chosen to emphasize the tale's elements of love and redemption, instead of its gruesome aspects. Glass's familiar style is aptly suited to express transfigured states like the fatal ecstasy of the first wife, who dies giving birth to her beloved son, while Moran's more muscular music communicates the horror of the murder without wallowing in it, the way the detached, matterof-fact language of a fable does...