Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sigauke, director of FRELIMO activities inside Mozambique, told a harrowing story of more than two years confinement in Portuguese prisons before he escaped from the country last July. Forced to watch the fatal beating of other prisoners, Sigauke himself spent a month in hospital as a result of torture from security police...
...illness that is gradually choking to death a million or more Americans might be expected to be a well-known subject of intensive attack by medical scientists. But the progressive and eventually fatal shortness of breath that doctors call emphysema (pronounced em-fe-see-muh) is so little known that it has no common English name. Until recently few laymen even realized that it existed,* and most doctors thought it was rare. But emphysema is rapidly changing its status. It is now recognized as probably the most common disabling disorder of the respiratory system...
...opinion, but The Alabama Lawyer's authors never once attempted to spell out the other side of the argument-even though, as Frankel noted, "the lawyer who cannot see his opponent's side or , the difficulties in his own case gropes in a blindness that is often fatal...
...downtown and airport, airport and airport, and on short suburban runs, but the lines are hampered by erratic schedules, the high cost of operation and passenger fears about safety that are hard to allay. (In the past decade, helicopter lines have carried 3,130,000 passengers with only two fatal crashes.) Every time a helicopter passenger pays $8 for a ride, taxpayers must chip in another $8 to enable him to make the trip. Still, as helicopter technology has advanced, the taxi lines have managed to cut per-seat costs from $3.68 per mile...
...reason the joke caught on so well, I think, was that it contained a fatal germ of truth. Supporters flocked to the cause with an intuitive enthusiasm--but they were flocking to several different causes...