Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital; 20 truckloads of pro-Thieu troops were reported en route to the city. Though the rumors proved false, the nation had good reason to be upset. A break between Ky and Thieu could have split the armed forces into rival camps, paralyzed the war effort and dealt a mortal blow to South Viet Nam's fragile experiment in constitutional government...
...same." And they were not above publishing fiction as fact. Mark Twain got his start in just this way when he was working for the Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise. In one grisly fabrication, he described how a man murdered his wife and nine children, inflicted a mortal wound on himself, then rode four miles on horseback to a saloon where he brandished his wife's scalp. The tipplers, reported Twain, were much amused...
...anybody's going to beat Pittsburgh, it's St. Louis. The Cards own the Pirates in face-to-face meetings and need only a good season from Ray Washburn or Al Jackson to back up Bob Gibson in a pennant run. The Dodgers are mortal without Koufax and will start three or four players you've never heard of. Cincinnati, to be a challenger, needs a good season from too many people who had their last good season two or three years...
...district, seems likely to remain, but Loser Couve de Murville is expected to be replaced. Apparently, though, De Gaulle is not overly disappointed with the makeup of the Assembly itself. The opposition will be strong enough to give his government constant trouble but too weak to put it in mortal danger. Besides, if the Assembly gets too rambunctious, the general can always legally dissolve it and call new elections...
...husband did not suggest that he ever had any reluctance to challenge the top figures of government. On his way to interview the Emperor of Japan, he asked his companions to help him frame an unusual question: How would you ask the Emperor how it felt to be a mortal and no longer revered as a god? He himself then proceeded to frame the question, simply and in a dignified manner that robbed it of any impertinence. He was a frequent visitor at the White House, particularly during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and he never lost a certain...