Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...severed and resewn legs-it is too early to tell how well the surgeons succeeded with Ev Knowles. "The greatest danger," said Dr. Shaw, "is of infection in an artery. If that developed, the arm would have to be sacrificed to save the patient from the danger of possibly fatal hemorrhages." The most nearly comparable U.S. case ended in failure after seven months, when California surgeons had to amputate the resewn leg of Mechanic Billy Smith (TIME, Nov. 9, 1959) because of a deep bone infection...
...served four Presidents, mastered Churchill's stutter and Eisenhower's wayward syntax, but the new tempo of the White House was not his, and last week Official Stenographer Jack Romagna was unceremoniously fired. The sacking left correspondents morosely pondering a final, unanswered question: Was Romagna's fatal mistake marking the transcript of a presidential telephone talk "From the White House swimming pool...
Mysteriously, Marshall's cadaver contained 15% carbon monoxide. Estimating that the embalming process had removed another 15%, the pathologist figured 30% at the time of death-not enough to be fatal in itself...
...Until recently, they were unimportant hazards in the human environment; evolution largely ignored them. Modern man can wander unheeding into strong radiation that he cannot feel, see, hear, smell or taste. And unless he carries an artificial radiation sense (a Geiger counter, ionization chamber, etc.), he may get a fatal dose without a suspicion of an alarm...
...vous étes une belle fille. Vous étes très sympathique." His head rolled restlessly. "É molto difficile per un corridore-molto difficile It's very hard for a racer-very hard]." Suddenly he was lucid again, instantly transported to the scene of his own near-fatal crash in the Goodwood International Grand Prix fortnight ago. 'It's bad, this crash," he said. "One hundred and twenty miles an hour. It's very bad. It was going so beautifully...