Word: fatalism
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Dreams of Solidarity. The big question about the apertura is whether it will be able to pull the Socialists away from their longstanding alliance with the Communists. Nenni apparently now wants this, but his formidable powers of persuasion are currently handicapped: he is still recuperating from a near fatal fall in a ravine this summer. Many of his party comrades are hypnotized by the idea of "working-class solidarity." Today, Socialists and Communists jointly run numerous local governments and agricultural cooperatives that are difficult to unscramble...
Devil confounded the conspirators by dying in bed. He was succeeded as Imam by Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 36, a scholarly left-winger who promised to modernize Yemen so that it could "catch up with the caravan of world progress." One of his first and most fatal acts was to appoint intriguing Colonel Sallal as commander of the palace guard...
...wall, an artery balloons out. The stretched wall is so thin that any rise in blood pressure caused by excitement or strain may burst it. Occasionally and unpredictably, the break is self-sealing and the scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops a warning leak that causes a severe headache and stiff neck, and a test will then show blood in the spinal fluid. Among the estimated 100,000 cases of brain aneurysm each year in the U.S.-most...
...singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer. Pale with dread, she visits a fortuneteller first and asks the old crone what is in the cards for her. Death is in the cards for her, and the fortuneteller cannot quite conceal the fatal fact...
...mood was that of a woman on a window ledge deciding whether or not to jump. She had just lost her only son through a fatal illness; her marriage was on the rocks, and her husband had gratefully fled to a new job in another state...