Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admitted, however, that there was a disagreement on this point among various university officials, and that many felt a tax bill with limited deductions would be fatal" to college fund-raising...
...game was played under a pall when a 60-year old New York City man in the stands suffered a fatal heart attack shortly before the contest was scheduled to begin. The game was held up 30 minutes as resuce teams attempted to revive...
...arrival with the children by Air Force jet was heavily covered by the Secret Service, state and local police. Her limousine left Otis Air Force Base at high speed, driven by Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, whom she had pulled to her side in Dallas when the fatal shots rang out. The day was overcast, windy, chilly. Next week Jackie expects to return to Washington, supervise her move out of the White House and into a Georgetown house lent to her temporarily by Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman. Later she probably will buy a house...
...warehouse. An autopsy on Kennedy's body produced one bullet that matched the gun. On the floor of the Lincoln, a second matching slug was found. The third was retrieved from the stretcher that carried Kennedy. Ballistic tests proved that Oswald's gun fired the fatal bullets. Oswald's palm prints were found on book cartons near the window, on the wrapping paper that was used for the "window shades," and on the carbine itself. Experts who later test-fired similar carbines agreed that a skilled man could fire such a gun three times in five seconds...
Crossed Neckties. Even before the assassination, the problem was on the minds of 3,000 Gaullist delegates who gathered in Nice during the fatal weekend in a valiant effort to create a young, forward-looking image for De Gaulle's party. The outward trappings were fondly assumed to be à l'americaine: blue-suited hostesses, party emblems, name tags for delegates, neckties imprinted with the Cross of Lorraine. After the stunning news of Kennedy's death flashed through the meeting hall, Party Secretary Jacques Baumel noted that De Gaulle now was "one of the last great captains...