Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whipple, chairman of Harvard's department of astronomy, it should keep pretty well out of the orbits of the earth and the comets, and particularly try to detour around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But a collision with a meteor won't necessarily be fatal. "Most penetration," said Dr. Whipple, "could be eliminated by a 'meteor bumper,' a second skin of small thickness a short distance outside the true skin of the ship. Meteorites would explode on that bumper and lose most of their power of penetration...
...even a defense good enough to bottle both the passing and the inside running threats has fatal trouble stopping the effective outside running of such a back as Merz and his hard-hitting running mate. Bob Engel. In this offense, it is the outside, rather than the inside man who keeps the defense "honest," and the opposing coach twitching...
...Catholic Church, and above all Wilmington's Du Ponts, were out to get him. Once he had Bennett send an agent to Wilmington to nose out what the Du Ponts were doing in, synthetic rubber. When the agent died suddenly, Bennett sent another who, by coincidence, suffered a fatal stroke. Cried Ford: "Harry, don't send any more men down there . . . they're killing them...
This omission of what is perhaps the first necessity of a good novel is not absolutely fatal to The President's Lady. "Old Hickory's" life was packed with enough variety to have roused the envy of Anthony Adverse. He knew the frontier and the arts of Indian fighting like the palm of his hand. He loved a wild financial gamble, but he could change overnight into a sober storekeeper and patient farmer. A capable lawyer and a judge, he pored for hours over classic volumes on military strategy, kept a string of race horses, fought pistol duels...
FOREIGN RELATIONS An Asia Policy Will Russia blunder into war? Probably not in Europe, where allied defense lines are already drawn and few power vacuums exist, said Tom Dewey last week. But in the Pacific, the Kremlin can still make the fatal miscalculation. Dewey's solution, arrived at during a two-month tour of the Pacific: "Start immediately to build a well-rounded and complete Pacific mutual-defense alliance...