Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he finally returned with nine more, he was moving very slowly. "Help me. My legs . . . Help me," the people on dry land heard him mutter. His exposure suit was badly ripped when they dragged him out. Another five minutes in the icy water might well have proved fatal, said a doctor. But Reis Leming was not bothered. Next day, once again he was back helping the rescuers. One fact made the job more difficult: Reis Leming cannot swim a stroke...
...Army did little about the case until church groups in the U.S. kicked up a ruckus (TIME, Feb. 2). Goff was first charged with "unpremeditated murder," but because the court-martial could not decide which man had struck the fatal blow, Goff was convicted on the charge of "aggravated assault." Even with the lighter charge, he could have drawn a prison term of five years, but the court was lenient. Why did Goff get off so lightly? "That information," said a legal officer, "is in the bosom of the court...
...came the Black Death. Malcontents spread a rumor that Dr. Scudder's anti-plague inoculations were really a lethal device of the British government to reduce India's population. Even having the body temperature taken was supposed to prove fatal. Ida Scudder sallied forth alone to give inoculations, and to haul the sick to segregation camps. Many a family hid its infectious victims, and tried to appease Mariamma, goddess of plague, by animal sacrifices...
...note, however, that this kind of wonder boy-acrobat character seems to have a fatal attraction for journalists. You would think that the American public demanded, not bread, but circuses from its intellectuals...
...Early. Studebaker had almost weathered the crash when President Erskine made a fatal mistake. Recalled Hoffman: "Erskine figured that in 1931 the back of the Depression was broken, and that business would be on the upswing. So he started to expand in that year. Harold Vance went to Detroit to be president of our Rockne company and bring out the Rockne, which was our challenge to Ford. But Mr. Erskine was a year too early. He made the awful mistake of expanding in a dying market." Studebaker fell $21 million in debt, went into bankruptcy. President Erskine put a bullet...