Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...force was a fatal mistake. Within afew days, 16,000 angry students and faculty hadshut down the Berkeley campus...
...Organization put out a story to townsfolk that withdrawing Israeli soldiers had deliberately left the rifle behind to cause an accident. Later they said that an Arab collaborating with Israel had given the boy the gun, and then that ammunition left by the Israelis had exploded and caused the fatal accident. Only a few hours later, the P.L.O. came clean: one of its men was to blame, the organization said, and he had been arrested and jailed...
...everything went awry, however, at the 450-meter mark. At that point, Chris McGarry made what turned out to be a fatal mistake. The senior three-man "caught a crab," allowing his oar to bounce awkwardly into the water...
Others were not so certain that the FIA alone was to blame. The owner of Ratzenberger's Simtek Ford said his driver's fatal accident was caused by a malfunction in the front end of the car. Might Senna's crash have been a case of driver error? "Ayrton Senna made a mistake," Carweek magazine quoted Williams-Renault technical director Patrick Head as saying. "We have checked the telemetry. He slightly lifted his foot just at that dip in the place where the tarmac changes. That caused a loss of grip from the car." A Williams spokesman later denied that...
...elegant stamp. Her Antarctica glitters and inspires: outcrops of jet-black rock kept bald by constant winds; prismatic ice masses shot with rose, blue and violet. As Scott and the other explorers recall their experiences, they foreshadow larger events. The dinner parties and official send-offs suggest a fatal national overconfidence. Scott's sensuous, assured wife already has one lively foot in the jazz age. In a hemisphere where seasons are reversed, birthdays and Christmas hint at endings rather than beginnings. Sailing south in summer heat, the men sleep on top of the ship's ice locker...