Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were exchanged for souvenir rubles as they had been in April 1945, and toasts were offered at a lunch in Torgau's District Culture House. Though the spirit of wartime friendship was briefly recaptured, present reality intruded. The U.S. Government boycotted the event to show its displeasure over the fatal shooting in East Germany in March of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson by a Soviet sentry and over Moscow's refusal to accept blame for the incident. As a result, there was a preponderance of East bloc officials at the ceremonies. Along with the Soviet veterans came Vyacheslav Kochemasov, Moscow...
...relapse grew worse. On Tuesday, physicians discovered that Neves was suffering a strangulated hernia, which made him susceptible to a breakdown of tissue. Once again he was operated on. Two days later the physicians discovered that their patient had a new infection in his lungs, which could be fatal. More surgery was performed, this time to drain two abscesses. It was Neves' fifth operation in 21 days. As relatives and friends prepared themselves for the worst, Neves began to show signs of growing stronger, and was said by a spokesman to be in stable condition. Said Dr. Henrique Walter Pinotti...
...respect reality." Head of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979, Bundy, 66, is now a history professor at New York University. His conclusions about Viet Nam are the opposite of Martin's. "It was not Watergate that made Saigon's survival impossible," he has written. "It was the fatal . . . imbalance between what (South Viet Nam) would have needed from us and what our own society would let us provide. The basic error was not in any one failure, but in the attempt itself...
...began as a minor traffic violation and ended with the fatal shooting of a police officer, a woman's murder and the discovery of a full female scalp in a stolen car. Alex Mengel, 30, a Guyanese-born tool-and-die maker, was returning home from a weekend of target shooting in the Catskill Mountains when a Westchester County, N.Y., police officer made the mistake of pulling him over. Noting spent shotgun shells in Mengel's car, the officer radioed for assistance. But before help could come, Mengel allegedly killed him with a single bullet to the head and fled...
First Novelist Goodman fictionalizes this authentic American romance from its heady undergraduate days to the mournful playing of Nearer, My God, to Thee in a rainy French graveyard. In the process he anatomizes the fatal innocence that accepted the conflict over there as an extension of the field and the rink. Goodman's debt to The Great Gatsby is manifest: his narrator, Jeb Runcible, regards his classmate much as Nick Carraway viewed Jay Gatsby. But the author's voice is his own, and as Jeb becomes progressively disenchanted, the golden pilot goes into a nose dive, changing from superhero...