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Word: fatalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed his wife and housekeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 18, 1961 | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...issue, four men are tagged with the fatal word. Danny Kaye is referred to as an "old (48) Mittyslicker." Admiral Arleigh Burke, retiring while still capable of exercising his wit, is dubbed the "old king of the cans (59)." And Prince Philip, of all people, turns up as an "old Naval person"-a title hitherto reserved for one whose undeniable claims upon it were immortalized by his correspondence with an American president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 4, 1961 | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...first player elected to baseball's Hall of Fame (he received 222 votes to 215 for Babe Ruth), Cobb was a superb athlete. But, like the hero of a Greek tragedy, he had a fatal flaw: his compulsion to win was too strong. Cantankerous and mean, he was heartily hated by his Tiger teammates-particularly during his six-year hitch (1921-26) as player-manager-and got involved in countless brawls. He fought a bloody battle with Umpire George Moriarity, once stormed the New York grandstand to attack a crippled heckler. His two marriages ended in bitterness and divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Guileful Magician | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...true enough that 509 men, women and children had died on the road (491 were killed to"set the old record on the same weekend in 1950), but in post-mortem estimates, the Council could only make wild guesses at how many Americans were driving on the fatal holiday. Though the U.S. boasts 25 million more cars than it did in 1950, no one could be sure what part of the mobile population decided to celebrate the Fourth of July by taking a trip. Fact is, despite the alarming record, the annual death rate per hundred million vehicle-miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Highways: Ghoulish Guess | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...sleepwalks into Robert Jordan's sleeping bag. Lady Brett Ashley is a special breed, a likable bitch. Ibsen's Nora wanted to be her own woman. Promiscuous, aggressive Brett, with her habit of calling everybody "chap," is both her own woman and her own man, with the fatal sterility of being able to give herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hero of the Code | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

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