Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horrors of a nuclear war prompt Acheson to criticize sharply Dulles' policy of massive retaliation, which could have resulted in a "fatal miscalculation." He feels that nothing would reassure U. S. allies more than a blunt statement that this country will use nuclear weapons only if a "desperate death struggle" is forced upon us by a surprise atomic attack...
...Hertz agency, although his boss had offered him a three-week compassionate leave. A Kremmling, Colo, merchant, who had known Jack Graham when he was a boy, said that he was "pretty sure" that Graham had purchased 20 sticks of dynamite from him just three days before the fatal explosion...
Last week Benny DeVoto came to Manhattan to appear on TV. He got through the program, was chatting with friends afterwards when a fatal heart attack struck him at 58. He had been a man whose judgment was sometimes off balance, but whose rampages helped keep a generation on its toes. His proudest boast appeared in his last collection of Easy Chair articles published a few weeks ago: "No one has got me to say anything I did not want to say and no one has prevented me from saying anything I wanted...
...send him data of two kinds: 1) How many patients with acute coronary thrombosis did each physician treat in the 30-day period beginning Sept. 24, when the President had his attack? Details wanted include patient's sex and age, occupation, national origin, and whether the attack proved fatal in the first 24 hours or in one of the following four weeks. 2) How many patients who are still living had similar attacks at least 90 days before the President's attack, i.e., before June 25? Are they back at full-time or part-time work, invalided...
...majority of the people are concerned . . . The anger of those who propose such drastic remedies . . . should be understood, too, as something beyond secession from the Union. What they urge is secession from civilization . . . No land indeed has ever been so clearly warned by its own past as to the fatal futility of flight from intellectualism as the American South ... It is not doubtful, but a certainty, that a South which would determine to shut the doors of its schools would be ready also to close all the avenues of expression and enlightenment . . . Indeed, to a considerable extent, that is already...