Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nagas (dragon spirits who inhabit rivers), but the prevalent Lao tian faith is Buddhism, with its strong emphasis on harming no living creature. Some medical men attribute the lack of aggressiveness among Laotians to disease rather than Buddhism or innate gentleness. Malaria, yaws, gonorrhea and kwashiorkor (an often fatal protein deficiency) are common; an estimated 50% of Laotian children die in childbirth or infancy. But to all disasters of body or soul, pious Laotians murmur in the words of one of their poets: "For our sins committed in an other world we are in these days suffer ing grievous punishment...
...years, in 1945 landed a job with a firm in Detroit, where he stayed. Steady progress led to his first partnership, to his St. Louis airport building, with its lofty barrel vaults of shell concrete (TIME, April 16, 1956), and later, in 1954, to a near fatal case of ulcers...
...PRACTICE LANDINGS with two engines cut have been ruled out by Federal Aviation Agency in hopes of preventing crashes similar to first fatal Boeing 707 accident (five men dead) last month on Long Island. Under new ruling, airline crews may cut two engines only at altitude...
...cowboys against bad cowboys; very little can be gained by an attitude of righteous indignation that the top boss of Communism be allowed to visit the United States as an honored guest. War is the common enemy of the whole world; clear-cut understanding and removal of prejudices and fatal illusions of superiority from both sides are our weapons...
...roving surgeon flew in, and at Dr. Dooley's request removed what he could of the lump, sent it to the laboratory for testing. Last week Dr. Dooley was back in the U.S. on the strength of the lab report: sarcoma-a fast-spreading cancer, often quickly fatal...