Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report, entitled "Research on Fatal Highway Collisions," attacks the tendency of public agencies to apply the tag "accident" to traffic deaths without any attempt to make a thorough investigation...
Drivers' psychological problems are also considered by the investigators to be a major contributing factor in many fatal accidents...
Dengue is seldom a fatal illness. But it is one of the most painful of infectious diseases, which explains its other name, breakbone fever. About a week after injection of the virus by a biting mosquito, the victim develops a fever, chills, excruciating headache, pain behind the eyeballs, backache, and pain in muscles and joints. Most victims are sure they are going to die-and many want to. The pain and weakness last for weeks. There is no specific medication; the only treatment is aspirin, lots of fluids and bed rest...
...fatal degree, the Mirror had become a copy that was nowhere as good as the original. Even its circulation was a dangerous overlap of the News's. A 1961 survey, conducted by an independent Manhattan research company for the Daily News, showed that seven out of ten Mirror readers also read the News on weekdays-and nearly nine out of ten on Sunday. Such duplicate readership is fickle, as New York's 114-day newspaper strike proved when it ended last April. Almost at once, Mirror circulation dropped by 85,000-the suspicion was that the defectors were...
Swagger & Treachery. From the turmoil rose truly remarkable men, who swagger through Van Every's pages. Joseph Brant was a sophisticated Mohawk chieftain, who was born in a wigwam but was equally at home in London society. He was perhaps the only Indian leader who fully understood the fatal consequences of Indian disunity. Alexander McGillivray, the son of a Scottish trader and an Indian beauty, became paramount leader of the Creek nation and a diplomatist of genius, who maintained his people's independence long after the other tribes had surrendered...