Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charge of Appeasement. But if Taft's vision was sometimes more limited than other men's, it was also sometimes wider. As early as 1944, while Washington and London were still nodding approvingly over the Teheran conference, he pointed out its fatal fallacies. "The danger to the accomplishment of an association of nations," he said, "does not come today from so-called isolationists or any unwillingness on the part of our people to go ahead. It comes from the current policy of Mr. Stalin and the failure of this country to have any definite foreign policy...
...That Fatal Scent. In Portland, Ore., Jerry Tisi, 24, a Navajo Indian, climbed through Patience Baxter's apartment window, found and drank a bottle of cologne, was lying unconscious on a bed when police arrived...
These summer weekends Dulles hurries up to his handsome shore place at Lloyd Neck, Long Island, where he spends as much time as possible with his wife, two married daughters and son Allen Macy, an ex-Marine lieutenant who is still recuperating from a near-fatal head wound suffered in the fighting around Korea's Bunker Hill last November...
Detroit had bought the Procession to Calvary in 1925 when the present building was under construction, got The Betrayal from an English collector 21 years later. Both were magnificent pieces, devout scenes of Christ under the burden of the cross and accepting the fatal kiss from Judas. But Sassetta's Agony in the Garden, in brilliant gold leaf, soft roses and browns with a rosy-cheeked angel under a cobalt-blue sky, was the handsomest of the three-and the hardest to get. It belonged to an English noblewoman named Lady Mary Catherine Ashburnham, who guarded it jealously...
...were alerted and fighter squadrons ordered to scramble to the defense of their zones. Operation Tailwind, involving some 1,600 aircraft and thousands of ground personnel, was the second major test of the continent's northern air defenses. Unlike last year's Exercise Signpost, it produced no fatal accidents. When the enormous amount of data from written reports and the photographic records of gun cameras has been assembled and analyzed, experts will write a top-secret report evaluating the readiness of North Americans to defend themselves against sneak attack...