Word: fatalism
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...which I think was numbered 3 and had some other exhibit number, came from Sacco's pistol, and I so informed the District Attorney and his assistant before the trial." Having been so warned, the District Attorney did not ask Proctor whether he had found any evidence that the fatal bullet was fired from Sacco's pisol. "I had repeatedly told him that if he did I should be obliged to answer in the negative...
...press censorship to claim ignorance of what was going on. The London Times declared that "it is lawful to use such force as is necessary to prevent escape, but not to compel unwilling men to work," and concluded that the government-sanctioned Cowan Plan "led directly to the fatal result...
...typing is not difficult if done carefully, and Dr. Moore found that most mismatched transfusions were caused not by technical errors but by simple human failures-mixing up specimen tubes, mislabeling and similar clerical errors. Worst of all, Dr. Moore charged that in more than half the cases with fatal reactions, the transfusion was not necessary or even desirable. Many physicians, he suggests, give one bottle to be on the safe side. One bottle is rarely, if ever, enough to do any good-but may easily be enough to do harm...
Died. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 73, polar explorer who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott on his fatal Antarctic expedition in 1911, later described in chilling detail (The Worst Journey in the World) a side trip he and two .companions made to find emperor penguin eggs; in London...
...world of the square. The word square means four-cornered, or lacking flexibility. Of course, we all have some element of squareness in us. But the point is that the beat refuses to have any real dialogue with the world of the square, and this to me is fatal...