Word: fatalism
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...into the Manhattan studio of famed Dancer Ruth St. Denis. "I went to tea and talked so long I was invited to supper. Five months later we were married in City Hall. But Miss Ruth had ideas about marriage. One of them was that marriage was supposed to be fatal to a woman's career, so we kept it a secret. Nine months later Miss Ruth told a Kansas City newspaper woman about it in strict confidence, and the news landed on the A.P. wire." The headline, confusing Shawn with an esthetic dancer named Swan: RUTH ST. DENIS MARRIES...
...Last in the national spotlight in 1935, after he developed a primitive vaccine against polio that was given to 10,000 children. Nine cases of polio, some fatal, were attributed to defects in the vaccine...
Adenauer is too canny and too principled a man to be seduced by Germany's ancient and fatal temptation to play East against West. But once diplomatic relations are established again in Moscow, Russia counts on there being other opportunities-and other Chancellors...
...Navy concluded that most of the external damage came from the dust on the islanders' skins and in their hair. More clothing, better shelter and prompt decontamination would have reduced it. None of the Marshallese died. Fatal internal damage was prevented by removing them from their contaminated island-just in time. Probably 50 more roentgens would have killed at least some of them...
...practice, some places would get much more radioactivity, perhaps an amount quickly fatal in spite of precautions. Others would get less...