Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must agree to support Tunisia against France, "to prevent eyes from turning toward the Communist bloc or other countries." Announcing that he had canceled Tunisia's March 20 Independence Day ceremonies "because we are no longer convinced we are truly free," Bourguiba declared: "March 20 is the fatal day. By then we can see what direction we must take. If we cannot find the support of the West, I will be obliged to say that I have made a mistake...
Arthur D. Schulte, son of the developer of the Schulte national chain of cigar stores, was making rapid strides in his father's footsteps when, at 32, he fell ill with thrombophlebitis-inflammation of leg veins, with formation of clots that could be fatal if they reached the lungs. That was 20 years ago. Schulte's physician, Dr. Irving Wright, casting around for a drug to prevent clot formation (none had yet been proved effective in man), appealed to Nobel Prizewinner Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He wanted some of the heparin that University of Toronto...
Plague is caused by a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, whose natural habitat is the rat. Fleas carry it from rats to humans. The disease, called bubonic when it affects the lymph nodes, pneumonic when it attacks the lungs, used to be 90% fatal; nowadays antibiotics and sulfa drugs can defeat it in 90% of cases, and widespread warfare against rats and fleas in underprivileged areas helps prevent outbreaks...
...that there are at least 150,000 potential customers who could gain by flying their own planes. The Civil Aeronautics Administration is already beginning to worry over how they will all fit into the crowded air. So far, the businessman's safety record is good, with only i.i fatal accidents per 100,000 aircraft hours v. a rate of .73 per 100,000 for scheduled airlines. Yet, as more and more planes go aloft in all weather, it may get to the point where the nation's airspace must be sectored off like superhighways, one lane for private...
...range missiles and must "get on the move" to catch up. But "It is important that we realize, at home and abroad, that we are not-today-in my judgment, in a position of inferior military strength vis-á-vis the Soviet Union . . . Such a misapprehension could lead to fatal compromises in connection with disarmament negotiations and could lead to other retreats in the foreign policy fields-worldwide-which would eventually destroy our security...