Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least one Harvard professor said he is concerned for his safety after federal officials said they suspected a serial bomber who has been known to target academics in the fatal bombing of a New Jersey man this weekend...
...January 1993, economic and personal desperation reached a tragic and nearly fatal crescendo within my Little Brother's family. What followed was an urban social services nightmare even people like Bob Coles would find difficult to narrate. I will never forget my Little Brother's small, trembling body as he lost himself in the temporary safety of my embrace in the cold, dark corridor of his apartment building that awful day. As I walked back to Quincy House, by way of Harvard street, I paused between snowflakes, tears frozen to my cheeks, enraged that I couldn't save him from...
Somehow, Harvard was able to accomplish this. Its performance still lacked the crispness which characterized last season's campaign; Steve Martins' fatal (and monumentally boneheaded) lapse in discipline will be looked back upon as one of the lowlights of the entire college hockey season; but the joy of the Crimson players which greeted the final buzzer was as justified as it was spontaneous...
...Vermont's Senator George Aiken proposed that the U.S. disentangle itself from Vietnam by declaring victory and withdrawing. America should think < about a variation on the Aiken scenario in order to begin leaving behind its fatal domestic quagmire of race. The nation should decide that, in order to rescue everyone's honor -- above all, that of African Americans -- it is time to withdraw from an untenable dynamic, from the racial equivalent of what the French generals in Indochina called "bad country...
...book opens with the scene of the author's Lazarus-like return from death. A near-fatal bout with pneumonia leaves the newly resurrected Lawrence "with a heightened awareness of the physical world and a messianic tendency to preach." The author emerges as a different sort of evangelist than one might imagine. In an excerpt from one of his early poems, the virginal schoolmaster addresses his own sadly neglected member: "Thou proud, curved beauty Would worship these, letting my buttocks prance...