Word: fatally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CONDUCTOR who preferred a Bronx cheer to apathy would likewise probably prefer to be remembered as an egotist--that he wasn't--than be forgotten. For with his quirks and bitter sarcasm we inevitably associate his idiosyncratic genius and adventurous spirit--sometimes fatal to the ambitious musician's career, but always vital...
Abzug and Beame had led all the opinion polls from Christmas right up through late August. But Beame's fatal burden was his poor record as a fiscal manager; although he claimed he had "made the tough decisions" that saved the city from bankruptcy, his chances for political survival were dashed last month when the Securities and Exchange Commission published a staff report damning his performance as deceptive and inept...
...report dealt a devastating and possibly fatal blow to Beame's primary chances. Most of his rivals quickly jumped on the mayor. Said Koch: "Beame was running the city like a second-class candy store." Typically low-keyed, Cuomo called it "sad" that Beame's lengthy civic career should culminate in such charges...
...most [people] ten are fatal, but if you take them with whisky, five are enough...
...paradoxical loathing for bureaucracy and trust in authority." A Japanese businessman who is cold-shouldered on the tennis courts exacts revenge by elevating one of the club's Malay ball boys to guest status. "The war did not destroy the English," writes Theroux. "It fixed them in fatal attitudes. The Japanese were destroyed and out of that destruction came different...