Word: fatalism
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...also a sixth sense of machinery that Yeager calls his "knowledgeable feel," his love of engines and valves "and all those mechanical gadgets that make most people yawn." Time and again this supersonic Zen led to discovery of critical data: a bolt installed upside down that caused several fatal crashes, a mental flash of a mispositioned stabilizer that saved his life...
...have found a method for doctoring plonk that is not only unorthodox but potentially lethal. Last week the Austrian government announced it had impounded more than 1 million gal. of white wine that had been adulterated with diethylene glycol, a chemical used in making aircraft antifreeze that can be fatal if swallowed...
...Congress declared war in 1917, Roosevelt decried the War Department’s lack of preparation. He had already started to think about the 1920 nomination when his youngest son, Quentin, a pilot, was killed during an aerial fight with the Germans. Six months later, Roosevelt himself suffered a fatal blood clot. He never regained the coveted office that he left...
...this story to a friend recently, she said, "You're a smart girl, Jane. How did you get duped into believing this and sending in the money?" Because I was 13 (hence immortal) and health wasn't a factor if it meant getting thin. I knew tapeworms weren't fatal. If it had been a bubonic virus I was sending away for, I'd have thought twice--maybe. But anything that would allow me to get thin without having to do something active seemed attractive. Mind you, I wasn't as extreme as a few other girls...
...lifelong, and he was known to prostrate himself before her statues. Since the shooting occurred on the anniversary of the 1917 apparition of the Virgin near Fatima in Portugal, he was convinced he owed his life to her. He made a pilgrimage of thanks to Fatima, and the near fatal bullet was fitted into a jeweled crown worn by her statue. In 1983, out of the same wellspring of faith, emerged an act of stunning virtue: his forgiveness of Agca in the would-be assassin's jail cell...