Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer. Pale with dread, she visits a fortuneteller first and asks the old crone what is in the cards for her. Death is in the cards for her, and the fortuneteller cannot quite conceal the fatal fact...
...mood was that of a woman on a window ledge deciding whether or not to jump. She had just lost her only son through a fatal illness; her marriage was on the rocks, and her husband had gratefully fled to a new job in another state...
That murderous byproduct of the gasoline age-the drunken driver-is moving into the sky. In 1961 private planes were in 54 accidents in which alcohol was involved-38 of them fatal...
...fairly successfully, to the ideal that athletic rivalry between nations should tran scend political differences. At the fourth Asian Games in Djakarta last week, Indonesia's President Sukarno tried to have the best of both worlds - and dealt supra national sportsmanship in the Far East a possibly fatal blow...
When the pair made their dash early one afternoon last week, Fechter's friend managed to climb the six-foot-high barrier and leap over the barbed wire on top. But Fechter paused for a few fatal seconds, long enough for the Grenzpolizei (border police) to raise their weapons and fire. Shot in the back by crossfire. Fechter fell back onto the death strip only 300 yds. from Checkpoint Charlie, the U.S. command post at the busy Friedrichstrasse border crossing...