Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computerized menus represent no attempt to automate a housewife's traditional chore. They are part of a serious and important study, financed by the U.S. Public Health Service, designed to discover whether American men still in their prime can be saved from fatal heart attacks by changes in their diet...
...Named for the bouquet Jackie Kennedy carried in the fatal Dallas parade...
...cited a lack of standards in tradition, managerial judgment, direction, performance, and criticism as the five "bullets" that might be fatal to a show. He asked that the national government begin its subsidy by appropriating "one rocket's worth of money for cheaper tickets" to permit a wider range of people to attend theater...
...alive better understood British upper-class tribal customs. When, during a divorce proceeding, the testimony of Lady Charles Mordaunt was read in court confessing that she had committed adultery with Bertie when he was Prince of Wales "often, and in open day," it proved embarrassing but not fatal, because Bertie had played his part honorably-visiting her Ladyship secretly and in a hired brougham in mid-afternoon and never behaving in a manner to embarrass Lord Charles when they were fellow guests on a country weekend...
...cautious to try blind landings with zero-zero visibility. When weather conditions at their target runways are worse than 200-½ (200ft. ceiling, half-mile visibility), they are diverted to the nearest usable airport, which may be hundreds of miles away. The system is remarkably safe; during 1963 no fatal accident to a scheduled airline was caused by bad landing visibility. But passengers who were taken to Montreal instead of New York were seldom grateful, and airlines suffered financially. The Federal Aviation Agency figures that weather delays, diversions and cancellations cost $67 million last year. With air traffic increasing sharply...