Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risk its prestige and its future by putting up candidates in the October municipal elections? Ten of the twelve spoke against it as premature. The movement, they said, was not sufficiently organized, candidates for all municipalities could not be found in time, a defeat at the polls would be fatal. Malraux proposed a compromise: an R.P.F. slate in two cities only, Paris and Algiers. Then the eleven lieutenants looked at the tall, slow-moving, impassive man who had galvanized and symbolized France's will to live through her wartime travail. He thanked them, flicked ashes from his blue suit...
After a see-saw battle for the first three quarters, Davis opened the final period by toting a Bellboy punt back to the Lowell 35-yard line. Lowell held for downs, but two plays later the first fatal interception occurred. On the next try from scrimmage, Davis went'33 yards off tackle to score. The try for point was wide...
...Zhdanov saw to the revision of all history textbooks). Thus, Soviet schoolchildren are taught: during "the Great Patriotic War [World War II] . . . we proved to be the only power capable, not only of halting the dark surge of fascism, but also of inflicting on it a decisive and fatal defeat...
...Group program. By persuading the Chinese Government to adopt American equipment and then refusing ammunition, we have put these soldiers on the end of a very long limb. ... If Manchuria should be abandoned to the Communists or should fall into their hands by conquest, a course of events fatal to China would follow...
...Boys. The expedition was delayed because of the insistence of Cuban backers that the force have more planes. Though Author Ernest Hemingway, holidaying in Cuba, warned the Dominicans that the delay would be fatal, 16 planes were finally collected and three ex-Flying Tigers were hired (at $200 a week) to fly the expedition...