Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking sheep, the kind that catch the judge's eye at shows, that are most likely to be carriers of scrapie. They have unusually powerful muscle development while young, so they are soon bid in as stud rams. Only in middle life (around 3½ years) do the fatal symptoms develop: enfeebled muscles, itching, the shakes...
...student entering the Law School is inevitably warned: In the first year they scare you to death, in the second they work you to death, and in the third they bore you to death. It is only the third-year's fatal boredom that will probably give the Committee any real concern...
...June meetings with De Gaulle and Khrushchev are taking place: a summit meeting is not to make decisions or even to reassure American, French, or Russian opinion. It is to take soundings, to make positions clear, and to avoid the sort of misunderstandings that result in fatal policies. The three nations must expect nothing further from these talks than the knowledge that their leaders have had an opportunity to appraise each other...
...graduate magna cum laude of a ranking Jesuit institution, Fordham, I observe that the fatal intellectual schism that rends Catholic colleges has seldom been more openly revealed than in your story on Notre Dame's Father Hesburgh...
Unlike most administrators, Dr. Whippie never gave up research. He shared a Nobel Prize in 1934 for the basic discovery that simple anemia can be corrected with some meats and dried fruits, and that even pernicious anemia (previously always fatal) would yield to liver and its extracts. He has picked up many other honors - among them, having a digestive disease named...