Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharp drop in the plasma's protein content (the result of drastic surgery, a burn or an accident) is one of the factors that make shock catastrophic and possibly fatal. So the long-mysterious lymph system is a means of combating shock...
Tulane University's Dr. George E. Burch and Dr. Nicholas P. DePasquale got the idea of bleeding their patients from the fact that victims of polycythemia (an excess of red cells in the blood) are especially prone to the pains of repeated angina attacks, and eventually to fatal shutdowns in the heart's arteries (coronary occlusions). Could it be that an excess of red cells makes the blood more viscous and more likely to clot? They thought it might...
Dartmouth took control of the ball at the beginning of the game. Adeptness in the Dartmouth backfield proved fatal to the Crimson's hopes for victory, the Indian's first score coming in the opening five minutes of the game. From then on Dartmouth had the game in its pocket. The Crimson forwards tried in vain to stem the Green tide. Buzz Miller, Mike Auer, and Bart Francis were particularly effective in the back but could not stop the speedy Indians...
...with large dope rings or their equivalent. If Leary's accounts of his work may be taken at face value-- and there is every reason to suppose that they may, since they have not been in the least covert--his drug research is legitimate clinical psychology. The one, nearly fatal, handicap his research suffers is that it is unorthodox...
...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...