Word: fatalism
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...Wade concurred with Dr. Travell's diagnosis of an ordinary lumbosacral strain, unconnected with the President's old, nearly fatal spinal fusion. But back in New York, Wade parried a reporter's query with the words: "I don't want you to finish your question. I don't want to say a thing about it." All of which left it pretty much up to the U.S. to make its own judgments about the President's health-and the nation could hardly be happy about what it saw. A "cherry picker" elevator was used...
Since such skull-popping potions are occasionally fatal and almost always produce violence, the harried police spend much time raiding the stills, breaking up gang battles and arresting drunks. Some 25% of all arrests and prosecutions in South Africa are for liquor offenses; last year 312,520 liquor cases went to court, including 1,602 arrests of Africans for possessing yeast without a permit...
...newly successful, about to marry a blonde Hollywood starlet, and already suffering the physical penalties of literary lionization-"the bloaty softness of his face, the bat's-flesh bags under his eyes." From that high or low point, Novelist Cassill traces the fever chart of Clem's fatal illness-his life-in an intricate series of flashbacks...
...looking sheep, the kind that catch the judge's eye at shows, that are most likely to be carriers of scrapie. They have unusually powerful muscle development while young, so they are soon bid in as stud rams. Only in middle life (around 3½ years) do the fatal symptoms develop: enfeebled muscles, itching, the shakes...
...student entering the Law School is inevitably warned: In the first year they scare you to death, in the second they work you to death, and in the third they bore you to death. It is only the third-year's fatal boredom that will probably give the Committee any real concern...