Word: fatalism
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...arithmetic of the impeachment vote. He was a man awake during his own nightmare. His vaunted self-discipline had not prevented the debacle and may even have caused it. He had suppressed the instincts that would normally have alerted him to his peril; he had been sustained on the fatal course by associates who subordinated policy to procedure and who were at a loss as to how to react when the procedures miscarried...
...administration of justice. The President must turn over to Judge John Sirica the 64 tapes subpoenaed for the cover-up trial of six former Administration officials. For those of us who knew Nixon's way of talking, the ruling spelled the end; if the tapes did not prove fatal legally, they would politically...
...match, using the one-pound leeway to get within the lower weight class, under 143 lbs: immediately afterwards, he boarded the already late bus and the team departed for Columbia. But no official witnessed his second informal weight-in-this one at under 143-lbs.--and that proved fatal for Harvard...
...novelty here is getting the inside German view. Das Boot has thrills aplenty; it moves full speed ahead through its 2½-hr. running time. Of the 40,000 U-boat men in World War II, 28,000 were killed, and the film is careful to emphasize the fatal futility of all this derring-do. Still, Das Boot should be instructive for American audiences. It shows that some of the bad guys were good guys...
...Catch-22 is that in order to vault to greater heights you must take a chance--move your hand a bit lower on the pole, or speed up your approach--but too much doring can be fatal. It's that dynamic tension of risk and cautiousness that every vaulter strives...