Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...body. By the third day, he is likely to be wracked by severe intestinal cramps, diarrhea, vomiting and nerve spasms. Goose bumps cover his body; they make his skin resemble that of a plucked fowl and give the process its name in the U.S. Cold turkey is rarely fatal-the Japanese claim 100% survival for those treated in hospitals-but the urge to commit suicide can be strong...
...nitrogen and 30% oxygen (at sea-level pressure of 14.7 Ibs. p.s.i.) to Apollo's low-pressure (5 Ibs. p.s.i.) atmosphere of pure oxygen.* If they did not stop in the chamber on the way from Soyuz into Apollo, spacemen would get the bends-the sometimes fatal buildup of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream that afflicts deep-sea divers when they ascend too rapidly from the high-pressure depths...
...Meeting, a fatal and apparently meaningless duel between two gentlemen at a party takes on the significance of another sort of "meeting" across time. The two knives which are wielded in the fight seem to quiver, as if by their own energy, in the hands of the unskilled fighters. Taken from a glass cabinet, they are relics from earlier days of Argentine banditry. The narrator discovers, years after this fight that he witnessed as a child, that these two knives (or ones very much like them) belonged to two outlaws, who jealousy despised one another, but who never were able...
...attack was not fatal, it was a severe trauma-not only to Wallace but also to the nation's democratic process. Again, it raised the old questions of violence in America, of whether political candidates in a democracy dared to risk campaigning face to face with the people (see TIME Essay, page 26). The gunshots at Laurel, Md., also jarred the 1972 campaign into a new perspective. It seemed more certain now that Edward Kennedy would be out of consideration as a convention draft choice to break a deadlock between Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern. Anxiety about the infection...
...relatively simple computer can be programmed to react to combinations of signals. Thus some mines are equipped with "counters." They will allow, say, nine ships to pass by and then blow up the tenth. Such mines greatly increase the dangers of minesweeping, since the sweeper may be the fatal tenth vessel...