Word: fatalism
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Inside the blockhouse an Air Force officer peered through a scope (roughly resembling a surveyor's transit), saw the wobbly bird, now three miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty...
...French police, and whirring helicopters blanketed the native quarters with leaflets proclaiming that Yacef now conceded that he had misled his fellow Moslems by urging them to revolt. His capture was a serious blow to the Algerian rebels. Anxious to show that it was not a fatal one, Moslem terrorists slipped into the heart of Constantine, third biggest (pop. 118,000) of Algeria's cities, and for 20 minutes sprayed shop fronts, office windows and automobiles with submachine-gun bullets...
...both the Tufts and the Williams scrimmages, the Crimson was particularly inept against its opponents' aerial attacks, a weakness Yovicsin fears will prove fatal against the Ithacans. Cornell has a good passing attack, as it showed against Colgate last Saturday...
Were civil defense to receive as much attention as the threatened Asian flu epidemic in this country, there would probably be fewer gray hairs and ulcers in the Civil Defense Administration. Yet Americans are preparing for a disease, whose fatal effects will be negligible, with more Boy-Scout-brand energy than they have ever devoted to the nuclear peril...
...years, had reached its peak point: it must be used or broken up. Ready to go, by Historian Maine's account, was "the fantastic total of 2,343 vessels, capable of transporting 167-590 men and 9,149 horses." It was to guard these that Napoleon sent his fatal order to Admiral Villeneuve, then in port in Spain, just above Gibraltar: "Wherever you find the enemy in inferior strength you will attack him without hesitation." Against his better judgment, Villeneuve sailed out from Cadiz with 40 ships to meet Nelson...