Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooklyn Eagle, reborn in October after a fatal Guild strike in 1955, jumped from 50,000 circulation to 325,000. The National Enquirer, a New York-based tabloid devoted to gossip and cheesecake, boosted its New York press run of 300,000 by one million. On commuter coach seats, the railroads laid daily news bulletins; the New Haven's throwaway prayerfully asked its passengers not to drop them on the floor. With what it called "characteristic spontaneity," Harvard's student newspaper, the Crimson, inundated Manhattan with 10,000 free copies of a "New York Edition"-2,000 more...
...turn to next year's legislation, programs blossom, and hope springs eternal. Throughout October and well into November, the departments nurture their plans in hothouses. Then comes time for approval by the Budget Bureau and the White House-and the petals begin to fall. The final pruning, or fatal plucking, is up to Congress...
...propaganda chief, Joseph Paul Goebbels." Wrote Joe Alsop in a column careless of any strain it might put on his friendship with the President: "The caves of the policymakers still too strongly resemble mushroom cellars. The danger is airlessness, in other words, and this airlessness can be too easily fatal, unless the caves are regularly ventilated by the winds of national doubt...
...traditional "all's well" greeting to a passing Air France jet. Minutes later it smashed into the 2,400-ft. Las Cruces hill and burst into flames. All were killed, including 18 Americans. For Varig the crash marred an enviable record of 25 years' service without a fatal accident. The pilot had taken his plane three miles too far to the east during his circling maneuver, and the crash had been inevitable. Whether it was his own error or that of faulty navigation equipment, no one could...
...than ventricular fibrillation -in which the heart's built-in electrical timing system fails and its lower chambers flutter futilely. Instead of beating purposefully and pumping blood to the whole body, they twitch ineffectively and pump nothing. There is no heartbeat. Doctors have tried to reverse the rapidly fatal process with a variety of electronic gadgets, but until recently no defibrillator has been able to do the job consistently. Now, some daring and resourceful doctors have become so sure they can restore a twitching heart to its normal beat that they are deliberately subjecting their patients to fibrillation...