Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violations of federal ventilation laws-and only two of the violations had been corrected. But 11 of 36 sprinklers used to dampen inflammable coal dust were not operating. There is no indication, however, that this was in any way connected with the explosion. Nor do officials know how the fatal quantity of methane gathered in the passageway-or what ignited...
...part of the investigation, Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a New York psychiatrist and hypnotist, put some of the surviving patients into trances and let the FBI question them. At least one, under hypnosis, suddenly seemed to recall forgotten details of his near fatal day. Richard Neely, 61, a retired auto worker who was being treated for cancer of the bladder, said that he remembered experiencing unexpected breathing difficulties and calling out to a passing nurse of Asian origin, who turned and fled at his cry. Later, shown photographs of the hospital's nurses, he picked out one of the Filipino...
...some ways, Martin's book deals more with exorcists and the price they pay for battling with spirits than the possessed themselves. As he relates their stories, it seems the physical and spiritual price is very high indeed. One exorcist, a virgin, makes the near fatal mistake of personally challenging the spirit named "Girl-Fixer," without attacking it in the name of Jesus Christ. The virgin priest is "raped," the spirit clawing his buttocks and genitals so badly that he must be hospitalized. Another, Father Peter, faces humiliation as his personal secrets are exposed during the course of an exorcism...
...response is unique to each individual. One person can live through years of bombing with no effect. In another case, something as trivial as the ringing of a bell provoked a fatal attack in a healthy young woman," Lown said...
...years after pleading guilty to manslaughter, but Dlugash went to trial and got up to life. Last week an appeals court decided that Dlugash should go free because the prosecution had not proved "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Geller was still alive when Dlugash fired his own potentially fatal bullets...