Word: fatalism
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...turn to next year's legislation, programs blossom, and hope springs eternal. Throughout October and well into November, the departments nurture their plans in hothouses. Then comes time for approval by the Budget Bureau and the White House-and the petals begin to fall. The final pruning, or fatal plucking, is up to Congress...
...traditional "all's well" greeting to a passing Air France jet. Minutes later it smashed into the 2,400-ft. Las Cruces hill and burst into flames. All were killed, including 18 Americans. For Varig the crash marred an enviable record of 25 years' service without a fatal accident. The pilot had taken his plane three miles too far to the east during his circling maneuver, and the crash had been inevitable. Whether it was his own error or that of faulty navigation equipment, no one could...
...Fatal Excess. Just before the voting, De Gaulle abandoned his favorite pose of being above party politics. In a powerful pre-election speech on nationwide TV and radio, he urged France to vote against the old-line parties and support his candidates, who were guardians all of "the good of the state, the fate of the Republic, the future of France." The most damaging blow to old-line parties was struck by one of their most respected leaders. Socialist Mollet. An implacable antiCommunist, he is one of the chief targets of France's Reds, who call him a "social...
...than ventricular fibrillation -in which the heart's built-in electrical timing system fails and its lower chambers flutter futilely. Instead of beating purposefully and pumping blood to the whole body, they twitch ineffectively and pump nothing. There is no heartbeat. Doctors have tried to reverse the rapidly fatal process with a variety of electronic gadgets, but until recently no defibrillator has been able to do the job consistently. Now, some daring and resourceful doctors have become so sure they can restore a twitching heart to its normal beat that they are deliberately subjecting their patients to fibrillation...
Women. The very word has a chilling, antonymous ring. It is faith beclouding reason, Art sapping Life. And it cannot be allowed to happen. Oh Colledge builded by Incest Mather and his helpmeet Prurience, take not this fatal step...