Word: mortalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand here and suffer and be killed?" But most Haitians have resigned themselves to a numbing life under Duvalier. The dictator's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute roams the country ferreting out opposition and collecting "donations" from terrified businessmen. Even Duvalier's own henchmen live in mortal fear. Using Haiti's pervasive voodoo mysticism, Duvalier has set himself up as the pseudo religion's top practitioner, and fearsome tales that he performs ghoulish rites on severed vital organs of his enemies flutter like bats through Port-au-Prince...
Although he had already succeeded to the leadership of India, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri could not be gin to govern until all that was mortal of Jawaharlal Nehru vanished in the wind, water and soil of India...
...march that turns out to be an ambush-long avenues of Moorish troops stand at rigid attention, each with a quick viking blade at his back. In the subsequent melee, even the lovely Schiaffino is impaled on a lance the size of a mizzenmast. Though such wounds are invariably mortal, they never seem the least bit serious. And that is probably what keeps Ships from going under...
What is original in the modern view-point, Pusey said, is its paramount concern with man as a victim of predicament--"an anguished, mortal creature in an absurd world...
...finds it in a pride so vast that it demanded others live according to Hemingway's own stern and complicated code (even when they could not know the rules), a pride so touchy that it could make the humdrum business of ordering a cup of coffee a mortal combat...