Word: fatalism
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...their trial the three Cypriots denied carrying arms or killing Hale. But the evidence was against them. They were identified, the fingerprints of one of them corresponded to those on the water glass, the fatal bullet had been fired from one of their guns. Two of the accused, Michael Koutsoftas and Andreas Panayides, were sentenced to die; the third, an 18-year-old, was sent to jail for life. Field Marshal Sir John Harding, determined to crush the EOKA underground, rejected pleas for clemency...
...Farmers and their helpers are subject to a mysterious illness called "silo-filler's disease" if they go into a silo soon after it has been filled while fermentation is at its height. In the A.M.A. Journal, two Minneapolis doctors report that the disease, which may be fatal, results from damage to the lungs caused by inhaling oxides of nitrogen. The preventive: "Allow no one to enter a silo for any purpose from the time filling begins until seven to ten days after it is finished...
Anything Goes. Cincinnati, meanwhile, recovered from an almost fatal 8-0 whipping by the Giants, scuttled the Pirates 6-4 and stayed within a long reach of the pennant. The Dodgers finished the week with two squeakers against the cellardwelling Chicago Cubs. But they managed to win both, despite umpires dedicated to the proposition that in a stretch drive anything goes. In the first inning of the second game, Chicago's Don Hoak broke up a double play with a spikes-first slide at Junior Gilliam, standing a "safe" two yards off the bag. Manager Alston was too preoccupied...
EVER since the mournful 1928 presidential-election showing of New York's Al Smith (87 electoral votes v. 444 for Herbert Hoover), the Democratic Party has generally accepted as political gospel this proposition: a Roman Catholic is a fatal liability on a national ticket and is therefore not to be considered...
...past, Congress and the Commerce Department have been reluctant to spend for air safety. But in view of last month's fatal collision, the supplemental appropriation is expected to fly through without a bump...