Word: fatality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Noting alarm among their patients over Quintuplet Emilie Dionne's death a fortnight ago after epileptic seizures, U.S. epilepsy experts hastened to issue reassurances: the disorder is rarely fatal, and in four cases out of five the seizures can be staved off or alleviated by drugs...
...night, they never refuse a call. Despite the high percentage of last-minute cases, the teams have compiled a striking record: in more than 8,339 home deliveries during the last 30 months, no mother has died. Of some 300 pathological cases requiring hospitalization, only three have proved fatal...
Last week Swissair, admitting "grave human failings" in its first fatal crash in 15 years, fired the pilot and copilot, and announced the simple, shocking cause of the tragedy: the crew had neglected to have the plane refueled at Geneva...
...loss of Indo-China would not be fatal to the anti-Communist cause in Asia...
What might be fatal was a continuance of the process by which it was lost-through weakness, irresolution, disunity...