Word: fatalism
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...Guard excesses. "You often try the leaders at kangaroo courts," he said. "On the death of Chang Lin-chih, minister for the coal industry, my mind is not at rest. He suddenly died-after a trial that lasted 40 days." Chou chewed out the Guards for other, less fatal outrages-against the minister for railroads, the minister for agricultural land reclamation and the minister for commerce, one Yao Yilin. "I have had to order him to take a rest," said Chou. "I understand you have issued a warrant for his arrest. Such a warrant amounts to one for the arrest...
...Peripherally involved"? The film shows interviews with the closest spectator to the limousine when the fatal shot was fired, vith three railroad employees who viewed the assassination from the railroad bridge just in front of and above the limousine, with the former Dallas police officer who saw Ruby enter the basement just before he killed Oswald, with a witness to the scene of the Tippit killing who indicates that two men may have been involved in that murder, with the photographer who took motion pictures of the assassination as the shots were fired, with Ruby's former bartender...
...Klein offered two warnings. Doctors must not use the cancer-killing ointments until they are sure just what form of the disease they are dealing with. The ointments do no good against melanoma, for example, and their misuse could lead to fatal neglect of this highly malignant cancer. Nor should they be used on the patient with a single, isolated basal or squamous cell carcinoma, because these cases are treated more effectively, and more simply, by X rays or surgery...
...Guys like that win national championships," he feels. They are men who maintain themselves through a grueling tournament while more aggressive wrestlers make fatal slips at points which stallers, take advantage of for winning points...
Naylor, like Henjyoji, tries to refrain from his favorite maneuver because when it fails it's fatal. If on falling back he fails to arch the man with his leg or if he doesn't have his arms firmly hooked into the man, then he will probably end on his own back. Naylor's teammates mention the possibility to him from time to time...