Word: fatalism
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...Arctic. As such, he, and they, were engaged in giving the free world the warning it must have if it is to protect itself from Russian attack, and the shield of intelligence it must have if it is to seek peace without the danger of being lured into a fatal trap...
...Blasingame (.289) who should score freely, batting ahead of Willie Mays (.313), Willie McCovey (.354) and Orlando Cepeda (.317)¶ The Milwaukee Braves have New Manager Chuck Dressen, a nonstop talker and one of baseball's finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled veterans. Fatal flaw of the Braves last year was the hole at second base. This spring Red Schoendienst, 37, back from a bout with TB, is trying to plug the hole. ¶ The well-balanced Pittsburgh Pirates depend in the end on Pitcher Bob Friend, who had a miserable season last year...
Last week poor, simple-minded Nina was in prison awaiting sentence for what the weekly Oggi could only describe as "the most senseless crime in Sicily's history." Once too often the hapless Salvatore had passed by the Giurlando farmhouse, and Nina had fired four fatal bullets into his body. "Do you repent of what you have done?" she was asked by the authorities. "Why should I repent?" she cried. "I was dishonored." The medical examination that declared her still a virgin meant nothing to Nina. Monotonously, tonelessly, she kept repeating: "He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed...
...woodcuts show submerged men hopefully sucking on bags full of air or puffing on tubes reaching to the surface. Looking for something better, Cousteau tried an oxygen lung based on a design developed by the British as early as 1878. He almost killed himself. He did not know the fatal flaw of oxygen: it becomes toxic at depths below 30 ft.* Twice Cousteau had convulsive spasms, was barely able to drop his weights and make the surface...
Ideals & Swindles. Harris' social climb was not destined to last. As Wilde said of him: "Frank Harris has been to all the great houses of England-once!" There was a fatal ambiguity in Harris' character which ran through a hundred episodes in his life. He was a fire-breathing imperialist as editor of the Evening News and later a liberal pro-Boer in the Saturday Review. He both overtipped and cadged. He hated the posh and the powerful, but once he had the top hat on his own head, he was happy-until he ran out of words...