Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full of sodium pentothal and given a lie-detector test.The interrogations convinced the Green Berets that Chuyen was a double agent serving Hanoi as well as the U.S. Because the CIA has overall responsibility for secret agents in Viet Nam, it was notified at once. The CIA sent the fatal reply: "Terminate with extreme prejudice." A few days later, the CIA countermanded its "extreme" order -but by then it was too late...
...York publishers. Someone visiting the remote Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick carved TED & MARY in the bridge's wooden planks. Reporters and columnists kept up a flow of speculation that prompted the New York Times's James Reston, who agrees that Edward Kennedy's account of the fatal accident at Poucha Pond has not been satisfactory, to object that "he is being tried in the press before he gets to court...
...much can one human being endure? The three previous tragedies-including his near-fatal airplane crash in 1964-are undoubtedly more than many people could gain full recovery from. They surely left a deep impression on him. Perhaps Senator Kennedy was nearer the breaking point during those "unexplained" nine hours than many people realize. That he regained his composure sufficiently to claim responsibility for his actions is certainly to his credit...
Incidentally, the fatal duel does not occur on stage. By his own admission, Chekhov had a hard time doing without the conventional pistol shot, which was an important feature of every one of his plays through The Three Sisters. But here, for the first time, the pistol shot takes place way off in the distance. And only in his final play, The Cherry Orchard, is there no pistol--instead we hear the forlorn sound of a far-off axe chopping a tree as the curtain falls...
...obsolete affectation, conducive to misunderstanding and error," they say. With rare exceptions, the medicine bottle should be labeled with the name of the drug. "The obsolete apothecary system of grains, ounces and drachms is dangerous and unnecessary. The ancient symbols for ounce and drachm are nearly alike, and fatal over doses have resulted. The abbreviation gr. (meaning grain, 60 mg.) is easily mistaken for gram (1,000 mg.), also with catastrophic consequences." Instead of a dubious decimal point, the doctor should use a vertical line...