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Word: fatally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned over to the FBI. Guyanese officials were given a copy. While both Guyana and the U.S. Justice Department refused to release the tape, copies somehow proliferated. The one obtained by TIME last week discloses that Jones' death decree was met with stubborn resistance as well as fatal acquiescence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hurry, My Children, Hurry | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Sometimes the game has inspired an author's best work. In Harris' Bang the Drum Slowly, the relentless, impersonal demands of a tight pennant race counterbalance the emotions stirred by a third-string catcher's lingering, fatal illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Thoughts | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...tiebreaking game, the two players fought to a 2-2 tie before Acosta nailed four straight points to take the lead. Acosta then committed a series of crucial mental errors which proved to be fatal. Keefe leapt at the opportunities and went on to post an 11-7 win, taking the match and the championship...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Handball Ace Finishes Second, Receives All American Honors | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

King argued that many teen-agers were abusing alcohol. Since 1972, the number of 16-and 18-year-old drinking drivers involved in fatal accidents had tripled. Youth vandalism in Boston quadrupled in five years, while incidents of disorderly conduct doubled. There was also a marked increase in the amount of drinking in high schools and in the number of teen-agers under 18 found to be supplied with liquor by older friends. Says Bertram Holland, executive secretary-treasurer of the Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators Association: "Alcohol abuse is the No. 1 problem in schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Closing the Tap | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...fatal lapse came with five minutes left. After Yale's Susie Krentz and Sue Melone converted two Harvard turnovers into field goals, forward Lisa Brummel netted a stirring three-point play on a reverse lay-up for a 62-51 Bulldog lead...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Bulldogs Thwart Women In Hoop Rematch, 69-60 | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

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