Word: fatalism
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...cobalt glow with a weird blue light. Together they weigh only 10 Ibs. and they cost only $22,500, but they give off as much radiation (4,500 curies) as $80 million worth of radium. If their shielding water were to leak away, they would give a man a fatal dose of radiation in seven seconds...
...surgeons when the time came to operate again. For the doctors were convinced that neither twin could get much better without a top to his brainpan (now closed lightly with plastic, metal foil and bandage). The longer the brain cavities remained unsealed, the greater the danger of a fatal infection. So far. neither of the babies was strong enough to face more surgery...
...rehabilitating the physically handicapped at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital and promoting rehabilitation programs across the U.S., Dr. Howard A. Rusk, 51, was named winner of the $10,000 Dr. C. C. Criss Award, given annually by an Omaha insurance firm. ¶Every year there are about 28,000 fatal accidents in U.S. homes. Most dangerous places, says the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., are the bedroom, kitchen and stairs: "The much-maligned bathroom [is] a relatively unimportant factor." ¶When Rancher Jack E. Johnson of Santa Rosa, N. Mex. took his wife Paula 20, to Santa Fe, doctors knew that...
...rose 250 miles) came back to earth with its steel fins partially fused. The recovery men shudder at the thought of what would happen to Von Braun's returning crews. Their red-hot spiral around the earth may be theoretically possible, but even a slight mischance would be fatal...
...always present. Finally, in far-advanced arteriosclerosis, parts of the artery wall become hard and glassy looking. Often there are deposits of calcium. And large globules of fat (including cholesterol) help to narrow the arterial tube so that the blood slows down and may form a dangerous or fatal clot...