Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyed Hoddy, heard the music ("I'm gonna live forever!/ I'm gonna learn how to fly!"), dive-bombed the field and hit the perch without a hitch. There was applause all around. The eagle had landed. But a vigorous press got wind of Bomber's fatal stress, and the controversy that followed sadly resulted in Fluffs being pulled from the show...
...trestle 80 ft. above a shopping district in Queens, N.Y. The crash left Spanish Diplomat Enrique Gilarranz dead and 125 other passengers injured. When an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck at a grade crossing in South Carolina three days later, killing one person, the number of fatal Amtrak accidents in the past month reached five...
...more than that of all other U.S. areas combined. But oyster catches, which produced an astonishing 120 million Ibs. of meat annually in the 19th century, stabilized at about one-sixth that level some 20 years ago. In 1982-83 the tonnage dropped even further when a mysterious and fatal disease called MSX ravaged the crop...
Seuss. His latest epic, The Butter Battle Book, is a parable of the nuclear age. Two peoples, the Yooks and the Zooks, find themselves in such fierce-and pointless-confrontation that each is ready to drop the fatal Bitsy Big-Boy Bomberoo on the other. They are very similar, these Yooks and Zooks. They seem to differ in only one way: one side takes its bread butter-side up, the other butter-side down. Yooks, Zooks. East, West. Butter-side up, butter-side down...
Opponents question whether the picture is quite that simple. The rate of reduced fatalities in the Insurance Institute study, for example, varied wildly among the states examined: from 6% to 75% in eight states and none at all in Montana. In New York, where the drinking age was raised from 18 to 19 in December 1982, 18-year-olds were involved in about 42% fewer fatal drunken-driving accidents in 1983 than in 1982; but the rate for drinking-age 19-year-olds fell by 29%, suggesting that both declines may have been caused by an outside factor like more...