Word: fatally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrases, "ethnic purity," particularly offended many blacks and whites. The episode had overnight become the cause celebre of the campaign and sent the Carter camp reeling. Was this one of those fatal slips that can destroy a candidate? For the first time in what had been a near faultless campaign to reach the White House, the candidate had stumbled badly. He had confidently fielded highly complex issues, from abortion to defense spending, yet he ignited a brushfire over race-just as white liberals were beginning to swing behind him and his broad support among blacks was being widely noted (TIME...
Reagan's real assault, however, was launched against the Administration's military and foreign policies. "The evidence mounts," he declared, "that we are No. 2 in a world where it is dangerous, if not fatal, to be second best... Peace does not come from weakness or retreat. It comes from restoration of American military superiority...
Coach Barnaby said the change of courts may have been fatal for the Crimson in its match against Columbia. "The change from the very fast courts at Penn to Columbia's slow courts undoubtedly can make a difference...
...with its sloppy style and careless organization. But if we can believe this book, it narrates a tragedy: Allende, blinded by his trust in legality and the integrity of the generals, refuses to depart from constitutional tactics in order to defend his revolution. With hindsight, Rojas points out the fatal errors of disarming the workers and preaching restraint, which together destroyed the only potential check to military insurrection...
WILLIAMS FINISHED the album and cleared up a messy divorce last August. In an effort to recuperate from both, he embarked on a near-fatal hunting trip to Montana, where he fell 500 feet down a cliff side. He was in critical condition for six days, spent three months after that in the hospital and still faces more surgery. With this in mind, the album's songs take on an eerie, almost morbid quality in places. For example, on "Can't See You," which closes side one, Williams sings...