Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within days of his 21st birthday, the Times of London printed a notice of his death. Fortunately, the whole thing was a mistake. The eight wounds that Robert Graves suffered in July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme in France were serious but not fatal. When the time finally came, last week, for obituaries in earnest, Graves had lived for an additional 69 years. The man who might have been remembered, along with Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen, as a bright young British poet snuffed out by war instead hammered himself into a cranky colossus of 20th century literature...
...wider connection. Characterizing the attack that killed Odeh as "terrorist," an FBI spokesman said that the Jewish Defense League, a militant pro-Israel organization, is "the possible responsible group" for Odeh's assassination as well as two separate bombings of suspected Nazis last summer. One of those blasts proved fatal: in Paterson, N.J., Tscherin Soobzokov, 61, a veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS, was injured by a bomb that detonated when he opened his front door. He died a month later. The Los Angeles Times has reported that the bombs used in all three cases were of similar design...
...military conspiracy was behind Aquino's murder. Instead, the court supported the military's contention that Rolando Galman, an alleged Communist gunman, had somehow managed to penetrate the 1,199-man security cordon at the airport that day and shot Aquino on the tarmac before being felled by a fatal barrage from nearby guards. The justices dismissed all evidence that buttressed the prosecution's argument that Aquino was instead slain by a soldier on the jetliner's service stairway...
Both men were ejected, and Pitcher Andujar had to be restrained by teammates during the six-run fifth inning of a foul-mouthed finale. Squalling over inconsequential balls and strikes, they really were pressing a grudge against American League Umpire Don Denkinger, who had made a fatal "safe" call at first base the night before. "I totally agree maybe he wasn't safe," allowed Denkinger decisively after viewing the replay. Branding American League umps "prejudiced" against National League teams, Herzog seemed to despair then and there. "We got as much chance of winning (tomorrow) as a monkey...
...television commercials, we fight against the irresistible temptation of ticking off the years of her life as they appear on the screen in order to speed things up a bit. When, at about three-quarters of the way through the picture, Cline is the victim of a near-fatal auto accident, we entertain the all-too-fleeting hope that screenwriter Robert Giechel had the sense to rewrite her life in order to end it sooner...