Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republic of South Viet Nam was flying within a hundred yards of the red-blue-and-yellow-starred flag of the Viet Cong. The flags often in fact became targets for the competing troops, and a villager's choice of which flag to fly was sometimes fatal...
...eventually rise to be editor or publisher or whoever the top man is. I think it's a wonderful ideal. But the country that spread that ideal got very old very fast. Now it's in a kind of menopause. Who knows if it will be fatal? If amnesty were declared in the next five years, I don't think I'd go back." In fact, Johnson says, the only reason he would want to go back would be to attend his grandmother's funeral when she dies...
...lapse next month, as will American with its six reservations, leaving Eastern and Braniff as the only potential takers in the U.S. Said Sir George Edwards, chairman of British Aircraft Corp., which along with France's Aerospatiale is building the Concorde: "We should not describe this as a fatal blow, but it's a hell of a setback...
...important member of the Harvard team. Each year Princeton parlayed a 16-2 sweep of the 1-meter and 3-meter competitions and firsts in both relays into a convincing win. This year, English appears to have a shot at splitting the two Tiger divers and thus averting another fatal 16-2 shellacking. His performances will be crucial to the team's chances of winning the meet on Princeton's territory...
...doubt Goncourt would have been pleased to find how durable this class of sexual object turned out to be. Pink and proletarian, tousled, complaisant and rather nitwitted, she persisted as the Ideal Mistress (counterpart to the Fatal Woman) well into the 20th century. Her ancestors are the nymphs of Boucher. Her descendant-spoiled by independence, but still embodying the fantasy of the naughty French chambermaid-is Brigitte Bardot...