Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greenville, Del., enjoyed a game of lacrosse with friends, then gave a fellow player a hand in moving a rug. Still clad in his playing shorts, sweatshirt and tennis shoes, he leaned over the trunk of a car to make room for the rug, when three fatal pistol shots whizzed seemingly out of nowhere and hit him in the back. Shields' death was the twelfth in the series of bizarre, random "Zebra" attacks -apparently not linked with the S.L.A.-that have plagued the city for 21 terrifying weeks; six other people have been wounded. All the victims have been...
Though he was one of the stalwarts of the Nixon Administration, privy to its innermost secrets, eloquent in its defense, John Connally was barely grazed by the Watergate scandals as they unfolded. But last week he appeared perilously close to being dealt what may be a politically fatal blow. Despite his denials that he has done anything improper, he is under investigation by a Watergate grand jury and faces possible indictment for his role in the raising of campaign contributions from the free-spending milk producers. The Texas whirlwind may have good reason to start crying over spilt milk...
...Fatal Illness. The patient goes through a similar process four more times during his stay at Schick's Shadel, at the end of which he will presumably associate nausea with liquor-and have a long-term aversion to the stuff. "Aversion conditioning is not fun at all," Schick's Shadel's Director Dr. James W. Smith tells incoming patients, "but you are dealing with a fatal illness. In other fatal illnesses, such as cancer, surgery is often called for if it gives the patient the best fighting chance for survival. At the moment this is the best...
...thousand dollars, you can now choose an alternative to both cremation and burial. With any luck, you may even be choosing an alternative to death itself. The Cryonics Society of New York is peddling a unique form of insurance against terminal disease: in the event of death caused by fatal illness, your body can be frozen, suspended in a capsule of liquid nitrogen and buried in the hope (no matter how far-fetched) that some day you can be thawed back to life by some future "miracle of science." As an added bonus you will receive "postsuspension counseling (for survivors...
From Pheidippides and his fatal journey to Athens bringing news of the Greek victory at Marathon, to four long distance runners from a small all-male school of 1974, there is not so great a difference, actually...