Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maloney in the A.M.A. Journal, is that Dieffenbachia-it is also called dumb cane and mother-in-law plant-is such a common house plant that anybody could easily be accidentally poisoned by it. A child who chewed it would become seriously ill, and the effects might be fatal if he swallowed it. For dumbcane stalks contain calcium oxalate, which causes burns similar to those of caustic soda...
...Holy Ireland." The exodus from Ireland, which Novelist George Moore ironically justified by calling Ireland "a fatal disease" from which "it is the plain duty of every Irishman to dissociate himself," continued after the country won its independence from Britain in 1921. As in most other newly liberated countries, the men who took over were romantic revolutionary heroes, steeped in the Otherworld but ill prepared by experience to meet the practical challenges of building a modern nation...
...played there. So many performers must take the stand during a given Festival concert that none of them gets a chance to play for more than an hour; some have less than thirty minutes. For a musician who is a slow starter, a tiny time segment can be fatal. Even groups which swing from the moment they start to play need time to establish their own mood. The size of the crowd precludes any real give-and-take between audience and artist beyond the mass-meeting variety...
...disease is as old as the pharaohs -telltale traces remain in mummies 3,000 years old-but to the dismay of public health doctors, it is more prevalent than ever. Schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, snail fever-by whatever name, the debilitating and often fatal illness afflicts more than 150 million people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The disease is almost unknown in the U.S.; the few scattered cases brought into the country each year by visitors and immigrants fail to spread, create no public problem...
...BORIC ACID, once a favorite remedy for minor irritations such as diaper rash and prickly heat, can be fatal. Most insidious are the cases in which frequent application allows boric acid to be absorbed into the body through broken or irritated skin or through mucous membranes. Since the body is slow to eliminate the chemical, it accumulates in the liver and kidneys; in infants it sometimes causes nausea, convulsions and death. For years pediatricians have been wary of boric acid. Now a research team at St. John's University College of Pharmacy in New York City has developed...