Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, had reached its peak point: it must be used or broken up. Ready to go, by Historian Maine's account, was "the fantastic total of 2,343 vessels, capable of transporting 167-590 men and 9,149 horses." It was to guard these that Napoleon sent his fatal order to Admiral Villeneuve, then in port in Spain, just above Gibraltar: "Wherever you find the enemy in inferior strength you will attack him without hesitation." Against his better judgment, Villeneuve sailed out from Cadiz with 40 ships to meet Nelson...
...Hollywood. Someone's making a pile of dough out of this morbid Dean business, and that's one reason they're working so hard to keep it alive. But the full irony of Dean's plan to win fame and glory was that his fatal accident wasn't a part of the scheme. Yet, that really made the legend...
...eminent medical researchers with known differences among themselves as to detailed interpretation of the facts, the five committeemen* surveyed the parade of theories whereby atherosclerosis and its fatal consequences have been successively blamed on cholesterol in one form or another, on increased fat in the diet, on animal fats and most recently on saturated fats, whether animal or vegetable (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956). They agreed that several factors-heredity, the anatomy of blood vessels, blood pressure, sex and obesity-are at least as important as dietary fat in predisposing to atherosclerosis. They were unanimous that obesity is a heavy villain...
...mirage of 100 years of history. For Australia's story, as it is told in the school books to this day, is not one of national revolution or wars of liberation, but a simple narrative of what seekers and explorers found inside the place, in that fatal zero known to Australians as the "Dead Heart" of the continent...
...factories and firms they find themselves regarded, and resented, as Colonel Blimps. Private companies, however, are delighted to pick up ex-field marshals at fancy prices for their boards of directors. Too many honors without enough rank can also be bad. "A knighthood," observed the London Economist, "is fatal; it often confines a man to running a charity...