Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Crimson's big man gone. Dartmouth out-scored the home team, 11 to 7, in the final period, to pull even. Then came the fatal overtime...
...excitement, has no importance ; it rises quietly out of the big land, and sinks quietly back into it. The natural world, in fact, is the only real character in Winds of Morning; the people in the book appear chiefly as traits of that character. Ordinarily, this would be a fatal flaw. The measure of Novelist Davis' success is that he will almost certainly make a great many readers decide that his favorite country deserves the affectionate priority he gives...
There were plenty of technical problems, including the theoretically fatal one of an all-male cast. Billy Budd, the innocent young sailor who represents good in the allegorical struggle with evil, stands in sharp contrast with the wicked Master-at-Arms, Claggart. But Captain Vere had to be "tidied up," made into a more central symbol of conflict: he knows that Billy was framed, but he also knows that under the Articles of War Billy must hang for striking Claggart...
...corporation's plant in Orange in 1917-19, Mrs. Casler, like the other victims, apparently swallowed bits of radium when she moistened a paintbrush with her lips while painting numerals on watch and clock dials. Apparently unaffected for 23 years, she showed the first symptoms of her fatal illness...
...after the age of 45, Americans cannot expect to live as long as their contemporaries in many other countries, e.g., England, Canada, The Netherlands, and especially Denmark and Norway. Statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. wondered why. A dig into the records shows that American men have more fatal accidents and more heart disease. American women have more accidents, more diabetes...