Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took their chances in wagons across Indian country. There might be some intimation of progress in the fact that last week's Trans Caribbean Boeing 727 crash on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, in which two passengers died and 54 were injured, was the first and only fatal crash of American scheduled airlines in all of 1970. So superb a safety record suggests that something much closer to complete safety in the air may not be impossible. But as the still-grieving campuses of Marshall University and Wichita State University attest, it was a disastrously imperfect year...
...continued emphasis on full, non-self-serving disclosures. Only thus can increased confidence and tranquillity between those who govern and those who are governed be found. Total and complete disclosure, particularly in dangerous times, represents an impossible dream. But excessive secrecy is a contagious disease that could be fatal to the practice of modern democracy itself...
Rabies, a virus infection transmitted to humans through bites from infected animals, has always been considered fatal. So far, all those known to have contracted it have died, often after long, horrible illnesses. Now there is an apparent exception to this deadly rule. Matthew Winkler, 7, of Willshire, Ohio, has not only managed to survive the disease for two months, but last week he made medical history by showing signs of recovery...
...want to state unequivocally that the FBI did not pay any sum of money to any person in connection with the attempted dynamiting in Meridian, Miss., in June 1968, which resulted in the fatal shooting of Mrs. Ainsworth and the arrest of Thomas A. Tarrants III. Nor does the FBI tolerate, condone, or participate in entrapment...
...venerable old Dumas novel in a succession of Forty, Count em, Forty, Swiftly Moving and Breathtakingly Dramatic Scenes-See D'Artagnan outwit the Cardinal's guards! See Milady de Winter steal the Queen's jewels from the Duke of Buckingham! See Con-stance, wife of Bonacieux, drink the fatal glass of wine!-George Hamlin's current Loeb production works up virtually every type of scene Polonius could ever want to see. It's a Baskin-Robbins approach to theatre and it includes nigh unto every flavor known...