Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ketch Truant two years ago, from England to Greece, via the English Channel, the rivers and canals of France, and the Mediterranean Sea. His crew consisted of wife Isabel, whom Millar describes as if she were a delicate platinum watch to which salt water would be fatal, but who suggests, in action, the most efficient boatwoman since Grace Darling...
Airman-Movieman Howard Hughes, who claims that the United Aircraft Corp. was responsible for his near-fatal plane crash two years ago (their propellers were faulty, he charges), set a value of $250,000 on the damages to himself, $238,000 on damages to his Hughes Tool...
...would be a good idea, they said, for civilian doctors to get blood banks organized and join in the civil defense program. Light clothes are best to wear for an atomic bombing (Hiroshima victims proved that dark clothes increase the chances of fatal burns). If death does not come quickly, "the patient may become extremely emaciated." After that he may die, but "emaciation" sounds more cheerful than "atomic death...
...were able to stop hemorrhage in people suffering from acute leukemia. (Hemorrhage is one of the reasons people die from radiation.) They used two drugs which worked equally well: toluidine blue, a tissue stain, and protamine sulfate, a protein compound. The doctors used the drugs on dogs that had fatal doses of X rays, and prolonged the dogs' lives 26 days. The drugs might, they think, be useful on human victims of radiation sickness...
...longtime habit of trying to hang too heavy a meaning on too slender a frame. The virtues of economy and precision seem to have dawned on the author too late. Henry Miller's contribution, if any, to 20th Century writing may be that he often illustrates the fatal distance between "self-expression" and the hard discipline...