Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metrologists soon began to worry about the meter bar. It might be lost or destroyed, or its metal might change with time in subtle and unpredictable ways, altering the distance between the lines by a fatal few parts per million. Worst of all, as the years passed and technological requirements became even more devastatingly precise, the bar's accuracy was no longer good enough. A master standard must be at least ten times more accurate than the practical measuring systems that are derived from it, and modern industry began to call for tolerances expressed in millionths of an inch...
With one minute left in the half, after blocking a Crimson punt, the Indians scored from Harvard's ten yard line on a short pass thrown by quarterback Ron Schram to end Hugh Harris, Joe Barchelder kicked the fatal extra point...
...Kansas City. Says a state engineer: "We have just about exhausted all the water-purification methods known at this time." A brief typhoid outbreak last year in Keene, N.H.-traced to contaminated water-killed one person, struck down 18 others. Incidence of infectious hepatitis, a debilitating and sometimes fatal viral disease of the liver, which can be transmitted by polluted water, is up 71% over 1959. Says the U.S. Public Health Service: "The problem of keeping enough water clean enough to protect the public health has become enormously complex, difficult and urgent...
...turned himself in to Walter Reed General Hospital for tests. A doctor drained off a sample of fluid from the knee for laboratory analysis, discovered the presence of the "staph," a ubiquitous microbe that can cause a varied assortment of minor and major ills-from boils to pneumonia to fatal blood poisoning...
...similar to atherosclerosis in the adult. Circulation, the doctors believe, had been interrupted by the difficult delivery that followed premature descent, and probably squeezing of the umbilical cord. Blood clots formed, as in the adult's coronary thrombosis. As far as they can judge, the baby had his fatal heart attack when only one hour...