Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Particularly significant in the team's defensive play were the great shows Dave Morse, captain Dave Grannis, Ron Thomson and Dave Johnston put on in the final period to kill three near-fatal Crimson penalties...
President Kennedy's target date for a moon flight coincides with an unusually intense period of solar flares or bursts of radiation, he pointed out, which would prove fatal to any space traveler. Twenty-five pounds of shielding per square foot could protect a voyager against the Van Allen radiation belts, he said, but adequate protection from flares would not be feasible because of the greater weight required...
...acting poison can be dangerous. For at least 24 hours the victim shows no symptoms; then a swelling appears and the site of the bite turns into a large, purplish pimple that heals slowly. In a few cases there is hemolysis (destruction of red blood cells), which may be fatal...
...other white soldiers (see box, p. 20) who were his major support. Finally last August, U.N. troops began an ill-fated action to force Tshombe ,to end his secession-an action that ended in a humiliating cease-fire maintaining the status quo and in Dag Hammarskjold's fatal air crash...
...year ambassadorship to the Philippines, New Jersey's lame-duck Democratic Governor Robert Meyner, 53, was headed for New Frontier oblivion. Unsummoned to Washington despite the attempts of top New Jersey Democrats to land him a job with the Administration, the former Phillipsburg lawyer-who took a fatal hesitation step before jumping on the 1960 Kennedy bandwagon-announced that he would be returning to private practice. As Meyner himself once confided, "The Irish Mafia doesn't like...