Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line as a whole is alert and follows the ball well." It has ends who can catch a pass a strong center in O'Brien, battle-wise guards in Rosenau and Kanter. Injuries in a few key spots could prove fatal to a squad which lacks real reserve strength...
...Newcombe, the Brooklyn pitcher, matched Roberts until the fatal tenth when he allowed singles by Roberts and Waitkns. These, followed by Ashburn's unsuccessful sacrifice, set the stage for Sisler's winning blow...
...great majority (85% or more) of those in a half-mile radius from the burst will die. Most of these will be killed instantly by blast, heat or falling masonry. Others will get a fatal dose of radiation...
...knows whether this peril is simply the ancient Oriental device of inflicting a thousand cuts [where] no one of the cuts is fatal, but over a long enough period the victim dies. It may be the thousand cuts or it may be all-out atomic warfare . . . The hour is very late . . . Whether we still have a day or a year or three years or ten years, not a second should be lost...
...novel . . . The novelist is in the same position as his reader. But his perceptions should be always just in advance." What is the novelist's-or any writer's-object? "To whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen...