Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joke," one scientist commented. "Inside the ring, there is tremendous leakage of energy in the form of high-frequency radiation. A person caught in there when the machine is running would receive a fatal does in a small fraction of a second." Eight feet of concrete and lead are used to shield the experimental hall personnel from the ring's radiation...
...farmer, has just returned from a year of schooling in the city. With her first whiff of the pure country air, she again falls in love with her childhood sweetheart, the galumphing but more-than-pure, Osgood. He asks her hand and, in reply, she delivers the fatal lines, "Oh Osgood, that cannot be. The die is cast...
Dreams of Solidarity. The big question about the apertura is whether it will be able to pull the Socialists away from their longstanding alliance with the Communists. Nenni apparently now wants this, but his formidable powers of persuasion are currently handicapped: he is still recuperating from a near fatal fall in a ravine this summer. Many of his party comrades are hypnotized by the idea of "working-class solidarity." Today, Socialists and Communists jointly run numerous local governments and agricultural cooperatives that are difficult to unscramble...
Devil confounded the conspirators by dying in bed. He was succeeded as Imam by Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 36, a scholarly left-winger who promised to modernize Yemen so that it could "catch up with the caravan of world progress." One of his first and most fatal acts was to appoint intriguing Colonel Sallal as commander of the palace guard...
...wall, an artery balloons out. The stretched wall is so thin that any rise in blood pressure caused by excitement or strain may burst it. Occasionally and unpredictably, the break is self-sealing and the scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops a warning leak that causes a severe headache and stiff neck, and a test will then show blood in the spinal fluid. Among the estimated 100,000 cases of brain aneurysm each year in the U.S.-most...