Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Voice in the Land. Politics fascinates Galbraith, and he is somewhat intrigued with the idea of running for the governorship of Massachusetts. But his sharp wit, irrepressible candor and donnish mien would be fatal handicaps at the polls. As it is, there are many who think that he has already spread himself too thin. "The peril with becoming a Voice in the Land," says Columbia Economist Louis Hacker, a friendly critic, "is that you are expected to be knowledgeable in every subject. Galbraith has no right to be pontifical on things like Viet...
Last week the Chloromycetin controversy boiled up again in hearings before the Senate Monopoly Subcommittee. Expert medical witnesses agreed that serious and fatal reactions to Chloromycetin are relatively rare. The University of Illinois' Dr. William R. Best suggested that only one patient out of 20,000 or even 100,000 might develop them. Dr. William Dameshek of Manhattan's Mount Sinai School of Medicine put the rate at about one in 10,000. Either way, it sounds few enough. But so many Americans took Chloromycetin that by 1964 the American Medical Association counted 298 U.S. cases of serious...
...ridden presidency. Amid all the tumult around him, Johnson still found time to chat amiably with West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütze, make yet another plea for a 10% income tax surcharge, and present the Heart of the Year Award to Actress Patricia Neal, who suffered three near-fatal strokes three years...
...arena with you, not the man in the grandstand rooting for the man who's in the arena." Although the early opinion polls have made Nixon the heavy favorite over Romney in New Hampshire, he declared that defeat in the Granite State "will not be fatal to either candidate." Yes, he conceded, he must erase his loser's brand. But, at the risk of sounding "insufferably conceited," he predicted: "I will be the decisive winner of the primaries. I will go on and win the nomination. And I will beat Lyndon Johnson...
Hemophiliacs are subject to severe and often fatal hemorrhages. Internal bleeding, especially around the joints, has many debilitating effects...