Word: fatalism
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...that he would force the urban affairs plan to a House vote two days later. In the Senate, Mansfield hurried back onto the floor and announced that he would move to discharge McClellan's committee and obtain a Senate vote before the House could act. It was a fatal move: tough old John McClellan took it as a personal affront and began rounding up votes to defeat the discharge petition...
...fought poverty all the way along. His two marriages broke up, he suffered from cancer, and not long after a serious operation he was in a nearly fatal automobile accident. Though the first glimmerings of recognition had begun to come to him, his depression became so acute that he could scarcely paint. On July 21, 1948, he went to the barn behind his home near Sherman, Conn. A few hours later, friends found his body hanging from a beam...
...bite of Loxosceles laeta (laeta, by the way, is Latin for happy, joyous, or pleasant) causes a local ulcer and deterioration of blood and muscle tissue. The condition may spread through the body. Laeta bites are not usually fatal, Levi said...
Tender Is the Night. Director Henry King and Scenarist Ivan Moffat have made a slickly commercial, bleakly melancholy movie out of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story of a man emasculated by a fatal desire to please. Jason Robards Jr. plays the failed hero with All-American charm...
Four generations of the German Wallenda family had been performing on high wires over a period of 88 years, without a fatal injury. Night after night, they went on working 50 ft. or more in the air, never with nets beneath, death always below them. For all their poles, chairs, bicycles and gymnastic skills, what kept the act booked was the universal tension engendered in every watcher by the knowledge that the Flying Wallendas might fall...