Word: fatalism
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...defeat would immediately and most joyously be recognised by the pro-Goldwater forces as the defeat of a dedicated enemy. In the wake of San Francisco, the forces trying to recall the Republican party to its senses are all too weak already; Keating's loss would perhaps be fatal. I hope no one assumes that an all-powerful Democratic party would be fine for the United States; like any one-party domination of the country, it would be disastrous...
...parallel to the American Revolution, in that it, too, was a war for independence. His references to slaves almost invariably mention their great loyalty and contentment. This, the third and last volume, bears the title Jefferson Davis: Tragic Hero, and Strode writes in his introduction: "I can find no fatal 'flaw' in the Davis character like to that which Shakespeare gives his heroes to bring about their own ruin, unless it be a passion he shared with the classic Greeks: an almost fanatical belief in freedom in government...
...make them easy to take, the tablets are usually chocolate-or sugar-coated and are brightly colored. They look and taste so much like candy that iron poisoning of small children is becoming increasingly common. In the past 15 years there have been hundreds of cases, many of them fatal...
...CHILDREN: "You must never expect the very young to have a sense of humor of their own. Children are acutely risible, stirred to laughter by dozens of human mishaps, preferably fatal. They can understand the points of jokes, so long as the joke is not on them. Their egos...
...there was a single flaw, and it was fatal. Lieut. Harfad Sardoun, one of the six pilots, passing himself off to the conspirators as a secret Baathist, was in fact working for the regime. As the plotters' plans firmed up in late August, Sardoun fed details to Aref's police. Aref made no move until Sept. 3, eve of the coup. Then, overnight, loyal army units and police swooped down on Camp Rashid. The five Baathist pilots were rounded up and executed. Colonel El Jabouri and most of his officers of the 4th Armored Brigade were clapped...