Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party pattern that pervades Africa these days, Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria's strongman since last January's bloody coup that toppled Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, announced on television last week that the job of curing his country's "fatal maladies of the past" will take no less than three years...
...FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. Historian Moorehead skillfully constructs a new version of the fall of man as he shows how the European Enlightenment brought disastrous changes in the primitive societies of the Pacific...
...average: $28,380), he has lately been dislodged from his old status as the grand panjandrum. In the bestselling Intern, the mysterious Dr. X-who well knew the necessity of shielding himself from his colleagues' vengeance-admitted that doctors learn only by committing "colossal blunders" that sometimes prove fatal. The profession's official and aggressive opposition to medicare marred the doctor's image among many Americans-and raised bothersome questions about how the profession will treat the huge influx of new patients, all of them old people who particularly need human comfort. While most patients profess esteem...
...bottom of the ninth with an infield single, and first baseman Ken O'Connell lined a single to center, moving the runner to second. Both men advanced on Leo Laverdore's fly to center field. Dennis Horger walked to load the bases, and with Saba at the plate, the fatal pickoff throw ended the procedings...
...avoid the fatal weaknesses of earlier dirigibles, Morse's airship would be constructed of high-strength alloys of titanium and aluminum, the outer covering of durable nylon fabric. Radar and improved meteorological forecasting would enable the ship to avoid severe storms. The use of nonflammable helium for buoyancy and nuclear instead of chemical fuel for propulsion would virtually eliminate the danger of fire and explosion...