Word: fatales
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...were drawn together by their mutual bookishness and preoccupation with politics; Kennedy's near-fatal illness in 1955 sealed their bond. Sorensen compiled the research for Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, while Jack was convalescing in Florida, was wrongly credited by Drew Pearson with ghosting the book-a charge that was disproved by Sorensen's notes, Kennedy's handwritten drafts, and the assistance of Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford. Pearson later retracted his charges. Sorensen helped Kennedy plot his unsuccessful try for the vice-presidential nomination in 1956. Only weeks later they embarked on the long...
Evasion & Frustration. The board came into being when 13 Teamster insurgents, charging that Hoffa's election had been rigged, sued in 1957 to prevent him from taking over the presidency. Hoffa made a deal that most Hoffa haters thought was a fatal blunder: if he could move in as "provisional" president, he would permit a board of monitors to oversee Teamster affairs. The resulting consent decree called for the board to consist of one insurgent-appointed monitor, one Teamster-appointed monitor, and a chairman to be named by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts. Ever since, Jimmy Hoffa...
...treatment for such attacks involves no prolonged restrictions or use of anticoagulants; most patients are up and around after three weeks of bed rest and quickly return to normal activity. Such people, so the traditional medical argument runs, should thank their stars that the same factors that often produce fatal attacks in others have caused them only temporary indisposition. But last week Philadelphia's Dr. William Likoff somberly warned the AHA that the "mild coronary" may have more cause for ap prehension than for gratitude...
Vermont's three electoral votes may not bear a heavy impact on the national election, but a great many congressmen and citizens are looking to the state to see if it is fatal for a public official to take an outspoken position on issues that make him politically vulnerable. The focus is on the re-election campaign of Rep. William H. Meyer, whose championing of the peace issue has left him open for a smear-job along all too familiar lines. Another victory for him this year in conservative Vermont would be the peak in a series of surprises...
...later critics. One of the plays was burned by Goethe, who threw the manuscript into his stove because of its "damnable perversity." In all of Von Kleist's work he saw "a body well planned by nature, tainted with an incurable disease." Whatever the taint was, it was fatal. Von Kleist, whose own letters almost certainly prove that he was a homosexual, had a weakness for death pacts. In 1811, at 34, he made one with a married woman and carried it out near Berlin by shooting first her and then himself...