Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he would force the urban affairs plan to a House vote two days later. In the Senate, Mansfield hurried back onto the floor and announced that he would move to discharge McClellan's committee and obtain a Senate vote before the House could act. It was a fatal move: tough old John McClellan took it as a personal affront and began rounding up votes to defeat the discharge petition...
Stomach cancer, which is often undetected until it is far advanced and likely to prove fatal, shows puzzling variations in frequency. The poor, says Dr. Moore, are more likely to get it than the rich. This suggests that the recent decrease reflects an improvement in the diets of the poor. At Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, ethnic groups with high rates of stomach cancer have only one dietary peculiarity in common: they eat a lot of cabbage. Dr. Moore comments: "Fortunately, the consumption of cabbage has been decreasing for several decades...
...some vicious meows. Dorothy also has an inclination to be hilariously wrong. With authority and certitude, she misplaces geographical landmarks, mispronounces French words, and misnames the heroes of history. WOR listeners tune her in with something of the same impulse that makes crowds gather at a fatal accident. When one correspondent caught her flatfooted in a factual error, she noted his return address and sniffed characteristically: "If he's so smart, what's he still doing in Perth Amboy, New Jersey?" Says one regular: "I listen to Dorothy and Dick every morning just to get the poisons...
...fought poverty all the way along. His two marriages broke up, he suffered from cancer, and not long after a serious operation he was in a nearly fatal automobile accident. Though the first glimmerings of recognition had begun to come to him, his depression became so acute that he could scarcely paint. On July 21, 1948, he went to the barn behind his home near Sherman, Conn. A few hours later, friends found his body hanging from a beam...
...bite of Loxosceles laeta (laeta, by the way, is Latin for happy, joyous, or pleasant) causes a local ulcer and deterioration of blood and muscle tissue. The condition may spread through the body. Laeta bites are not usually fatal, Levi said...