Word: fatalism
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...club fighter, died in September 1951, four days after he was knocked out by Middleweight Roger Donoghue. New York State Athletic Commission doctors, argued Mrs. Flores, were negligent in permitting her husband to put on the gloves with Donoghue. In two previous fights, both within five weeks of the fatal bout, George Flores had been cruelly beaten, defeated by technical knockouts; the second time Donoghue himself had handed out the beating...
...fatal indelicacy of touch, whether from Director Don Marston or belonging to the untalent of the cast, blurs the Adams House production so that positive identification of what seems at times a perceptive interpretation is impossible...
...Memorial Hospital, told a Boston meeting of the American Medical Association that they have discovered an association between smoking and obstructive pulmonary emphysema. In a study of 34 victims of emphysema- a swelling and rupture of the lung's tiny air sacs that can prove disabling or even fatal-the doctors discovered that 100% of the patients smoked, and that they smoked an average of twice as many "pack years" (packs per day times years of smoking) as other patients...
...breakdown shows that 164 jets and 237 propeller-driven aircraft were involved in the accidents. Twenty-three of the jet collisions were classified as "major accidents," and at least one was fatal. This occurred when a bird crashed through the windshield of a Republic F-84, stunning the pilot and sending his aircraft spinning to earth. Bird-caused accidents to jets rose from eleven in 1950, twelve in 1951, to 48 in 1954, 27 in the first six moths of 1955. Some have resulted from birds' nests being built overnight in the air scoops...
...horrors of a nuclear war prompt Acheson to criticize sharply Dulles' policy of massive retaliation, which could have resulted in a "fatal miscalculation." He feels that nothing would reassure U. S. allies more than a blunt statement that this country will use nuclear weapons only if a "desperate death struggle" is forced upon us by a surprise atomic attack...