Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nitz was at best a lukewarm Nazi, but he was a tough sailor in the service of the Third Reich. As commander of Hitler's lethal submarine force, he masterminded the sinking of 14 million tons of Allied shipping during World War II. It may have been Dönitz's U-boat successes that led a desperate Hitler to designate him as his successor near the end of the war. The admiral subsequently ran the doomed country for 23 days, staving off the inevitable surrender while he operated a hasty sealift through the Baltic, enabling 2 million...
...terror became public. After all, she says in perhaps the most ironic and alarming part of her article, Argentina is closer to progressive liberalization than Cuba or China. Her comparison of these countries in terms of human rights is as absurd as her suggestion that Argentina, suffering under a lethal stability imposed by the right, will soon be democratized...
...necessarily include far-right hit lists, censorship, the absence of gun control, prayer in schools and a constitutional amendment banning abortion. These things are significant if problematical, but they do not represent majority wishes. Nor does the Reagan mandate suggest approval of a national pulpit for Jerry Falwell's lethal sweet talk or of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), whose liberal-hunting leaders have been jumping up and down like Froggie the Gremlin since Nov. 4. The majority voted for Reagan because he appeared to be a reasonable man, and a reasonable presidency is what the country expects...
...woman to match Charles A. Lindbergh's feat of a solo flight across the Atlantic. 1932 also brought cruel tragedy to Lindbergh and his wife: their infant child was kidnaped and murdered -the first of the century's repetitious proofs that even heroes are not immune to lethal violence...
...into buying his unwritten cornpone saga of the "true West." Saul is one of those monstrous Hollywood moths who skirt the flames of venality, yet never get torched. All three men are the progeny of Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, that emetically funny moral jeremiad hurled with lethal precision at the cynic American psyche...