Word: fatalism
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...Harvard defense which many observers thought to be the team's major weakness this season has in fact played a dominant role in the Crimson's outstanding showing to date. A rash of injuries especially in light of Harvard's recent scoring problems could be fatal...
ACUTE LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA, a cancer of the blood-forming tissues that accounts for approximately half of all juvenile cancer deaths, was invariably fatal before chemotherapy was introduced in 1947. Now at least 25% of all children with the disease can expect to live at least five years. Credited with this achievement were Drs. Emil Frei III of Harvard Medical School, Emil Freireich of the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at the University of Texas, James Holland of Roswell Park and Donald Pinkel of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis...
...malady is perhaps not fatal. A few more failures like this one, and Truffaut may begin to lose his ease of mind. That can only be to his advantage. As matters now stand, he is too complacent to make good art and too successful to have to care...
Anthony Oettinger, professor of Linguistics, is fatally in love with a computer by the name of I.B. Emmy 60; she has shiny new keys and a self-cleaning memory system, which gives her the appeal of a perpetual tabula rasa. He is known to whisper FORTRAN into her phones at lunch hour. She does not go for wonks, so he wears a beret to look artsy. But despite her electric personality, he can't turn her on. His case is fatal; he kept falling on the ice in despair and abandon...
...second autopsy on the 17-year-old's body showed "conclusive evidence of injuries to the head" which had caused the formation of several possibly fatal hematomas, or blood deposits, beneath the scalp and around the brain...