Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory and defeat for the presidential nominee. Yet last week the unthinkable happened. Meany and Daley were not only slighted, they were not in evidence at the convention and openly mocked. The nominee himself set the tone when he told reporters that he did not think it would be "fatal" if Meany and Daley failed to endorse him. "I don't think my chances of winning the election depend on unanimous support of the little oligarchy at the top. If they did, I would never be where I am now because I certainly haven't had much help...
...bacteria remained and caused abscesses. Nine days after the operation, pus began to ooze from the surgical incision, and doctors detected an abscess in the left flank. Under local anesthesia, they cut into and drained the infection. Even with massive doses of antibiotics, Wallace now had peritonitis (a potentially fatal inflammation of the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity). It was then that the Governor was very near death. To be effective, antibiotics must reach bacteria through the bloodstream. But because the abscessed tissue lacked an organized blood supply, the antibiotics could not conquer the infection. So the doctors irrigated...
...straight-talking, Oriental populist. Almost everything about the man has voter appeal, from his hoarse baritone to his bumper-sticker name (which literally means "Sharp Prosperity Amid Paddies"). Tanaka was born in a rice-belt village, in Niigata prefecture, the son of a horse trader who had a financially fatal weakness for gambling. At 16, young Tanaka quit school and lit out for Tokyo, where for three years he ran errands for a contractor by day and studied the construction business by night. Tanaka's budding business career was briefly sidetracked when the Imperial Army drafted him and sent...
...swerve far. The subject of Report to the Commissioner is a pretty, blonde New York undercover narcotics agent who gets herself killed in the line of duty -which happens to involve being naked in the arms of a black heroin pusher. The problem is that the fatal shots were fired by another cop, an enterprising greenhorn detective who was not in on the girl's game...
Miss Jens is pretty enough to enact the Egyptian, who ages from 29 to 39. But she is not queenly, nor is she sexy. She does not embody the fatal allure that could pull Antony off his course in the way Dido waylaid Aeneas. Vocally, Miss Jens lacks a sense of rhythm and musicality...