Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steelhead trout fishing trip [Jan. 1], I arose at 5 a.m., drove 2½ hours over snow-covered roads, experienced a near-fatal skid, stood from dawn to dusk in icy, chest-high water, and was buffeted by 50-knot gales. After being forced to drive the last 32 miles of the return trip home at 15 m.p.h. because of ice and slush, I at last staggered into the house at 8 p.m. proudly holding aloft the object of my efforts-a nine-pound "buck" steelhead! What do you mean, steelhead fishermen are "screwy people...
...more than a year ago in Auckland, New Zealand, it is now being practiced on four continents in the hope of saving fetuses endangered by Rh incompatibility. And if its pioneers' hopes are fulfilled, embryatrics will eventually be extended to the treatment and prevention of other handicapping or fatal conditions...
...after power plows. How times have changed. The hero of Nine Days is a nuclear scientist who is hopelessly hung up on a great big, beautiful neutron breeder. The Stakhanovites sweated for the sake of the socialist society. But the scientist in this picture labors, and even accepts a fatal dose of radiation, for the sweet sake of science-because, as he proclaims, "You cannot stop an idea!" Just like Greer Garson in Madame Curie...
...life, and sometimes permits us to glimpse behind the dark curtain which hides those spaces unknown and where one day we shall be unified." Two days after Christmas 1950, while pursuing his imaginary lions on a morning walk in Manhattan's Central Park, Beckmann, aged 66, suffered a fatal heart attack and passed through to the space he tried to paint...
...circulation to the point of killing him. A likelier danger from the floral decorations of a contemporary Christmas is that a youngster will pull off and chew one of the pretty, pointed green leaves of a poinsettia plant. These contain an acrid juice that can also be fatal...