Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poisons man has concocted to combat his insect and rodent enemies, thallium sulfate is one of the most potent. Vermin can hardly stay away from it; they go right on nibbling baits containing the chemical until they have absorbed a fatal dose. Trouble is, children are likely to do the same, because thallium-sulfate baits are often put up in the shape of doughnuts or made of crumbled cookies. Last week, after years of tracking down victims of infantile curiosity, the A.M.A. Journal reported that nine Texas children died of proven thallium-sulfate poisoning between...
Next in the U.S. reaction was what was called the "empty-chair" approach. That would mean proceeding with plans for Atlantic partnership and European union as if De Gaulle's France were merely absent from the room. But there is one fatal flaw: France is not absent, and it is difficult to imagine any sort of economic, military or political plan for Western Europe that does not need, and must not seek to accommodate, France's presence...
...This is a fatal day!" cried Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns. In London a melancholy joke went the rounds: "Not since 1066 has a Harold been so badly done in the eye by a Frenchman." To the exasperated British, it all recalled the fairy story of the princess who assigns to an unwelcome suitor a series of seemingly impossible tasks to perform-but when the suitor returns triumphant to claim her hand, the princess says: "Oh, I could never marry a man with red hair." Paris wags were retailing the joke about De Gaulle's new inferiority complex...
...another short but promising step toward control of viral infections by using IDU against herpes simplex, the virus of fever blisters, in cases where the sores had broken out on the upper lip, nostril or cheek. Doctors usually dismiss cold sores as trivial, but the virus may cause a fatal inflammation if it spreads to the brain; it can cause blindness if it reaches the eyes. Some of the British patients already had corneal infections...
...began his reign by banishing his three bastard sisters to a convent, later blinded his nephew, Italy's 18-year-old King Bernard, for plotting revolt. But afterwards Louis fell into a remorse from which he never fully recovered. His son, Charles the Bald, was the prisoner of fatal impulsiveness: while revolt flickered along all France's frontiers, Charles took his army off to Italy to help the Pope fight the heathen Saracens, leaving affairs at home in the crafty hands of his bishop, Hincmar of Reims, who showed his contempt for the King in tracts secretly circulated...