Word: fatalism
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...right through that door." The outcome of the Taylor-Burton game must inevitably yield up a loser. If he should ever marry her, he will be the Oxford boy who became the fifth husband of the Wife of Bath. If she loses him, she loses her reputation as a fatal beauty, an all-consuming maneater, the Cleopatra of the 20th century...
...leadership fell to Mike Pearson. He had not fought for it, but the tax-free $38,885 Nobel Prize money had given him a small measure of financial independence, and he was willing to take a chance. He had barely begun his new job when he made an almost fatal political blunder...
...often make steady progress in the search for a cure. But not in the case of lung cancer. Doctors have long been convinced that cigarette smoking is a major cause, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin reminded a California seminar for science writers, but in the past decade the number of fatal cases of lung cancer has increased alarmingly. Death rates have shot up 73% in men and 18% in women. The death rates from other kinds of cancer have also increased-cancer of the kidney, 19% in males, and cancer of the pancreas, 24%; cancer of the ovary...
...Wilms's tumor, a cancer that attacks the kidneys of children and is often fatal, is yielding to new treatment. Reporting at the Cancer Society seminar, Dr. Sidney Farber of Children's Hospital in Boston said that radiotherapy and surgery had previously been effective in 40% of cases, but in the other 60% death usually resulted because the malignancy spread to the lungs. Now an antibiotic (Actinomycin D) has been brought into the battle and, combined with surgery and radiotherapy, the drug has raised the apparent survival rate...
...ever solved the 'social problem'... Although the whole record of past revolutions demonstrates beyond doubt that every attempt to solve the social problem with political means leads to terror, and it is terror which sends revolutions to their doom, it can hardly be denied that to avoid this fatal mistake is almost impossible under conditions of mass poverty...