Word: fatalism
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...years, in 1945 landed a job with a firm in Detroit, where he stayed. Steady progress led to his first partnership, to his St. Louis airport building, with its lofty barrel vaults of shell concrete (TIME, April 16, 1956), and later, in 1954, to a near fatal case of ulcers...
...PRACTICE LANDINGS with two engines cut have been ruled out by Federal Aviation Agency in hopes of preventing crashes similar to first fatal Boeing 707 accident (five men dead) last month on Long Island. Under new ruling, airline crews may cut two engines only at altitude...
...cowboys against bad cowboys; very little can be gained by an attitude of righteous indignation that the top boss of Communism be allowed to visit the United States as an honored guest. War is the common enemy of the whole world; clear-cut understanding and removal of prejudices and fatal illusions of superiority from both sides are our weapons...
...roving surgeon flew in, and at Dr. Dooley's request removed what he could of the lump, sent it to the laboratory for testing. Last week Dr. Dooley was back in the U.S. on the strength of the lab report: sarcoma-a fast-spreading cancer, often quickly fatal...
...town. The authors are such old hands at making their characters and backgrounds believable that the reader is persuaded to accept the whole bag of outrageous melodrama: hanky-panky with a million-dollar will, baffling telephone calls in the middle of the night, mysterious footprints on the terrace, the fatal mugging of a key suspect, pursuit by a killer through a raging summer storm. Deserving of Favorite Sleuth status: Detective Nathan Shapiro of Homicide. Manhattan West, a shambling, sad-eyed man who suspects that he is not really up to his job and ought to be pounding a beat...