Word: fatalism
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Suffering from extreme shock when finally rescued, Moffatt never recovered and died within an hour. The others, all exhausted and practically numb, huddled for the night in the only two-man tent that was still usable. The five arrived at Baker Lake on Sept. 24, ten days after the fatal accident, from where a search plane flew them to Churchill, Manitoba...
...Margie follows him, still determined to lasso the cad with a wedding ring. Aboard ship she meets another charmer, Mike Eden, who has a bad case of nerves, but for good cause: he is playing Scarlet Pimpernel in Nazi Germany and smuggling out persecuted Jews. Still, Noel has a fatal hold on her, and she finally catches up with him, only to find him living with and off a lady photographer...
...bringing less on the open market than his outstanding balance, the stage is set for another repossession.'' Moreover, said NADA, terms of three years or five years keep customers out of the market too long. "In a business which depends on repeat trade, this can be fatal . . . It's up to dealers to put a stop to crazy credit...
First to fall ill was a Cleveland social worker. Her symptoms fitted infectious mononucleosis. also called glandular fever. This is a little-understood (presumably viral) infection that is maddeningly persistent but rarely fatal, sometimes runs like a plague through institutions. That is what it did. Nurses at the hospital were soon dropping like flies: ten one day, 15 another. With 56 nurses and 23 other staff members out. the famed old Royal Free had to shut its doors for the first time in its history, transferred most of its 240 patients to other hospitals...
...past, Cleve Bailey has supported some of Powell's civil-rights efforts, but he feared that this one, by incurring the hostility of certain Southern Congressmen, would result in the death of the whole school-construction bill. Powell's amendment would be fatal, snapped Bailey, and Powell knew it. Retorted Powell: "You are a liar." Thereupon, the scramble started...