Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Change of Plan. On the fatal night, Resnick ate a quiet supper and told his wife he was going out for a stroll. "He put on his coat and left, but without kissing me, which he usually did," Lillian Resnick recalls. A block from his home, Resnick spotted the Studebaker. The killers had told him they would stalk him in the street, shoot him in the back of the head, and collect their pay from his pockets...
...until they lashed back with mob action against the Europeans. According to S.A.O. theory, once both sides were locked in racial war the French army would not hesitate to intervene on the side of the European pieds-noirs. But someone blundered, in what may well prove to be the fatal turning point for the S.A.O...
...spotted fever (caused by related microbes called rickettsiae ). Not until 1952, when hundreds of thousands of patients had had the drug-often for viral respiratory infections against which neither it nor any other antibiotic is effective-did evidence arise that it had caused a dozen or more cases, several fatal, of aplastic anemia...
...since they have as much stake as anyone in weighing a drug's side effects against its advantages. Last week the Upjohn Co. withdrew Monase. a "psychic energizer,"after reporting to FDA that widespread use since June 1961 had produced seven cases of aplastic anemia, four of them fatal-though the drug was tested in 3,500 patients, with no sign of damage to their blood-cell mechanisms, before it was marketed...
Mary's fascination for her nephew Smith is almost as fatal as it was for Wilhelm. While other historians attribute German imperialism to social and economic forces, Smith attributes it to Mary. He may overrate her allure as well as her influence. "She was a lovely, luminously intelligent American," he writes at the apogee of his infatuation. But in the end he resists her charms and preserves his objectivity. "Her piety was sincere enough," he concludes. "Yet it masked a towering ambition and a Machiavellian talent for intrigue. Out of a life lived with a clear conscience, and with...