Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tree Doctor. Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn has developed a new antibiotic drug* for trees and plants that cures such previously fatal plant diseases as fire blight (in apple and pear trees) and halo blight (in beans). Agrimycin, a compound of streptomycin and terramycin, is absorbed into the plants' systems just as antibiotics penetrate the human blood stream. The drug will be available in quantity by March...
Maurois does not flinch from giving a clinical history of the relationships that caused George Sand to be described as "a walking graveyard." Nor does he deny that it was her fatal psychological weakness always to pick on men who were too weak to dominate her. And yet. his complete portrait convincingly presents a figure of memorable strength. Sand, Maurois shows, was the forerunner of today's emancipated woman. All her characteristics would have been considered admirable-in a man. Her friends were legion; most of her ex-lovers confessed that though she had nearly been the death...
...western slope of the Rockies into a long, grassy valley (alt.: 8,561 ft.), at one end of which lies the town of Fraser (pop. 350). Fraser, whose dusty streets and log buildings look like sets for a horse opera, was a little subdued. There had been a fatal shooting in Bud's Bar a few days before, and most everyone was getting ready to go to the funeral...
Last week an Air Force court-martial in Korea sentenced the officer of the guard, Lieut. George Schreiber, 25, to life imprisonment. At the same time, the life sentence of Airman Thomas L. Kinder, 21, the guard who fired the fatal shot, was reduced to two years. No one questioned the sentences, or the military's right to try Kinder and Schreiber. who are still in the Air Force. But the case of Bob Toth, a civilian, is a different matter...
...misgivings that were gathering in Mossadegh's mind. Shaken, the old man went to the phone and ordered his army and police to drive the rioting Reds off the street. That call, turning the army loose on the most powerful street support he had, was Mossadegh's fatal mistake. The troops were only too happy to oblige; they clubbed the rioters unmercifully and punctuated their thudding gun butts with shouts of "Long live the Shah" and "Death to traitors." Growing bolder, they forced the Reds at bayonet point to cheer the Shah, too. The next morning, the bruised...