Word: fatalism
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...months it will be a year since the Vietnam "cease fire," but in fact the war is continuing. It progresses at a level lower than in previous years, but no less fatal for those who are killed, no less uprooting for those who are made homeless. At the same time that the war continues, apparently, the political techniques which helped turn many Americans against the Saigon government of Nguyen Van Thieu continue as well...
...team that has had great difficulty putting the ball in the net thus far this season (only three goals in three games), an early one-goal deficit, while not necessarily fatal, was a severe handicap...
...unable to start, Kidder's place will be taken by Ben Bryant, an inexperienced junior up from the JVs. The loss of Kidder in the nets could be fatal this afternoon, especially when one takes into account the Crimson's scoring problems thus far and the fact that Wesleyan should test the Harvard defense considerably more than did MIT and Dublin...
...month after the announcement of the second engagement in July 1917, Kafka writes Felice of his first tubercular hemorrhage. He seems to have broken the news with a sense of relief. TB was not only a way out of marriage but, he believed, nature's final judgment-the fatal wound caused by his warring selves...
...shot. Campbell, a strapping exMarine, died almost instantly. Hettinger escaped. But he suffered a more lingering fate thereafter. Overcome with remorse and scorned by police brass for not putting up more of a fight ("If shot," the entire department was reminded at a roll call, "all wounds are not fatal"), he deteriorated into a haunted, hollow-eyed hulk who only now, ten years later, seems on the mend...