Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although his actions have prompted scorn and snickering during his campaign for a second term, two things usually fatal to a politician, the fervently conservative Senator has demonstrated a Teflon resistance to lasting taint. The Des Moines Register poll conducted last spring showed him 16 points behind his opponent, Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin, but the Register poll released last week gave the Senator a 50%-to-41% lead. Jepsen has appealed to Iowa voters by claiming to be a victim of "character assassination." At a Republican state convention, he won sympathy by saying he had been "stripped of all worldly...
...near collisions. In August, for example, a private aircraft came within 100 feet of a Delta jet carrying 146 people shortly after the larger plane left Washington. Nonetheless, most experts contend that U.S. skies remain remarkably safe. On regularly scheduled passenger flights last year, there were three fatal accidents out of 4.9 million departures, with a death toll of twelve. No fatalities have been recorded so far this year...
...August, Richardson made a fatal mistake: he refused to endorse the conservative G.O.P. national platform...
...good things approach their goals crookedly, and so for very crooked reasons I'll put his idea to the test." But page by page, scene by scene, Kennedy's prose is lean, energetic and grounded in the detail and humanity that keep Bailey from becoming that fatal cliche, larger than life...
...these reports, issued by an committee of 16 area doctors and scientists, warned that the accidental release of one quart of nerve gas--the maximum amount at the laboratory at any given times--could spread a fatal dose as far as three tenths of a mile away...