Word: fatalism
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...chief bequest was "the Capri scandal." There, in a Tiberian grotto, guarded by boys garbed as Franciscan friars, he staged Black Masses and homosexual orgies. When his wife protested, he had her locked up as insane. Just when the whole affair broke in the German press, Fritz suffered a fatal stroke and was eulogized by Kaiser Wilhelm II in a state funeral...
...liberal line in the U.S. Senate-certified and approved by Americans for Democratic Action-he has escaped the 200-proof-liberal label that afflicts Hubert Humphrey. And while Southern ties make him tolerable to many delegates from the South, he is not burdened with Lyndon Johnson's probably fatal handicap of being thought of as a Southerner...
...Most Fatal Sin." Suicide was not always frowned on; in eight instances in the Bible*suicide is not mentioned in condemnation, and the ancients in the Hellenic times tended to look upon the power to take one's own life as an inalienable privilege. But St. Thomas Aquinas summed up the reason for the Roman Catholic Church's severity toward suicide when he wrote: "[It] is the most fatal of sins, because it cannot be repented of." Protestantism was even harder on suicides than Catholicism...
...Welcomed the state visit of Juan Jose Arevalo, the "spiritual socialist" who let the Communists make nearly fatal inroads during his six years (1945-51) as President of Guatemala...
...takeoffs. Often they fly smack into an airborne craft. They have dived into propellers, smashed against expensive radomes, causing about $300,000 damage a year. Far worse is the ever-present danger that a Midway albatross may someday really clobber a $6,000,000 plane and cause a fatal crackup...