Word: fatalism
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...twin victories over the pennant-contending service teams gives the Crimson a commanding position for the remainder of the race. Dartmouth is the only team left to play which has demonstrated consistent excellence, and a dose of the Crimson's Paul Del Rossi could prove fatal to the Green's chances...
...suggests, they may be a result of it rather than a cause. On both sides of such questions, the Manhattan conferees agreed, much more must be learned. There is good reason for intensified research, because so many of the diseases now classed as autoimmune are crippling or even rapidly fatal, and for most of them there is no effective treatment, let alone a cure...
...sore throat, a light rash, and a fever of not more than 102°. In children, some swelling of the lymph glands is common but is usually not severe. Only rarely does the virus of three-day measles lead to pneumonia or brain inflammation. But it may occasionally be fatal. Last week three children's deaths associated with the current epidemic had been reported from Chicago, and a Connecticut teen-ager had died of encephalitis. Less predictable and less understood is a complication among adults: pain in the joints, sometimes so severe that it is compared with that...
...Bruce W. Klunder, 27, was a big, mild, bespectacled man, a sort of Clark Kent of the pulpit. But within him burned a fierce- and, as it turned out, fatal-sense of indignation...
...plan that strike leaders condemn as the first step toward socialized medicine and an unwarranted invasion of the privacy be tween doctor and patient. Despite a number of possibly preventable deaths, and two doctors held for questioning, there was so far no real case against the medical profession for "fatal negligence," thanks largely to the service degarde - a skeleton service set up in major hospitals to handle medical emergencies. It worked so well that many Belgians were wondering if the country really needed as many doctors...