Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triage officer's pitfall," says Dr. Escajeda, "is to start helping in emergency cases. The good triage officer doesn't do that. Spending time doing the humanitarian thing for one patient who obviously needs help right now is fatal. Mass confusion results. Patients pile up, half the emergency cases don't get cared for, and the whole system breaks down...
...Fatal Humiliation. Among half a dozen other gangland obituaries in the past year, the boys also recall the somber fate of Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, a gangland fixer who could smooth out any legal or political hump-and leave no tracks at all in the underworld sand. When he also was called before a grand jury, The Camel lost his cool. Rather than land in jail for silence or six feet under for talking, he lied-so ineffectually that he was hauled in on a perjury charge. That night, out on bail and back in his Marina City Towers suite...
...high of 160). A total of 213 cases was reported; of those, only six were of the "benign tertian" or vivax type. All other cases were caused by the far more virulent parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which sets off violent fevers and may make a fatal attack on the brain, spleen or other organs...
...NATO supply lines rerouted, and the status of U.S. air and logistic bases in France renegotiated. All this might not prove too damaging, for Paris has hinted that it is willing to consider bilateral defense arrangements with Washington. For NATO, France's departure could be awkward but hardly fatal; for De Gaulle, it would be easy and would hardly change a thing. Sheltered behind Germany, France will have to be defended by NATO's sword and shield, member or not, in the event of Russian attack. So De Gaulle can have his gateau...
After an overdose of LSD so serious that it reportedly could have been fatal, the student became psychotic and had to be treated at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston. He was released to Harvard authorities within a short time and recovered promptly...