Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps the most crucial play of the whole afternoon occurred in the very next series of downs. The Crimson had moved the ball out from its 22 to its 46, when Ravenel began a fatal run to his left end. Caught out there, he attempted to pitch back to Larry Repsher...
Reason behind this unlikely procedure is the pest's fatal weakness: the female mates only once. If a female happens to mate with a sterile male, she will lay nothing but infertile eggs for the rest of her short (three weeks) life. The U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists concluded that if males could be sterilized and released in large number, they would find the fertile females, mate with them, and thus eliminate them permanently as progenitors...
From Mary's 104° fever and other signs, Field Physician Garfield Fred Burkhardt suspected meningitis, probably tuberculous-a disease that was invariably fatal until twelve years ago. He plunged a needle into her back and tapped the spinal fluid. Its high cell content buttressed his fears. While Navajo Nelson Bennett worked the field radio to alert the Navajo medical center at Fort Defiance for an emergency admission, Dr. Burkhardt gave Mary Grey-Eyes a massive penicillin injection. This would combat the infection if pneumococci, rather than tubercle bacilli, were the cause...
...next decade, Dr. Wilkins predicted, hardening of the arteries and its fatal effects-heart attacks and strokes-will be the prime target, demanding 80% to 90% of researchers' efforts in the field of heart and artery disease...
...gubernatorial contest pits incumbent Foster Furcolo against Charles Gibbons, who became the party's rush nominee when Attorney-General Fingold suffered a fatal heart attack ten days before the primary. Gibbons, backed by thousands of dollars from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, is harping on the heavy state expenses in the last two years, and on the excessive state debt. The Republicans, however, are neglecting one point: most of the debt was incurred in the last two GOP administrations...