Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Initial opinions indicated suicide in the fatal shooting Tuesday of Charles W. Townsend '49. Results of an autopsy were not available last night...
...composite entry from Canada provided the fatal blow to the Crimson in the semi-final tournament match. In a hard fought contest, and single game of which could have changed the margin of victory, the Crimson lost out 2 to 2, thus ending their title aspirations...
...were the slightest chance that it would do any good, of discussing the subject with Stalin (the President denied that he was planning a direct approach to the Russians). But since the principle of the hydrogen bomb was also known to the Russians, temporizing was risky and might be fatal. The simple fact, unpleasant though it might be, was that if the Russians are likely to build an H-bomb, the U.S. will have to build...
This Gothic tale is artificially tensed by Author Brooke with misleading clues (the point of the confrontation at the Druids' stones is never made clear) and contrived devices of suspense. The Scapegoat still has the ugly reality of a fatal disease...
Cornell's Acting President Cornelis de Kiewiet went into action, suspended both societies "in view of the nearly fatal consequences of [your] activities." Then he called on a Cornell faculty committee to review the facts and make recommendations. Majura and Beth L'Amed (familiarly known as Mummy) had flourished for half a century at Cornell, but even in student opinion they had gone too far. Said the Cornell Daily Sun: "Cornell's doctrine of 'freedom with responsibility' had clearly been abused . . . The administration will not and should not allow us to kill ourselves . . ." Last week...