Word: fatalism
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...radio escaped, no television set was free of the hoarse exhortations and stylized imprecations of eager candidates. Professional and earnest amateur, statesman and anxious hoddypoll, they were shoving and jostling for the last, few, fatal votes from the indifferent and the uncertain...
...Thus the fatal, if inevitable, defect of "A Generation on Trial" is that it says nothing, absolutely nothing, new. The background and the trial details are valuable and perhaps interesting for many persons, particularly those who are students of the Hiss case. But the book adds nothing to public knowledge about the essentials: Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers...
...childhood, usually between the ages of three and six, and is transmitted through the mother by a recessive gene, nearly always to boys. Treacherous in its onset (seldom giving pain as a warning) and insidious in its advance as it weakens muscle after muscle, childhood dystrophy usually proves fatal before the 20th year...
...these men are well drilled in tackling--as was clearly shown in the Boston University scrimmage. The pass defense showed occasional spurts of brilliance in the B. U. fray, but has petered out in practice lately. Another weakness in the defensive backfield, lack of speed, may also prove fatal this afternoon and every seven days hereafter...
...line as a whole is alert and follows the ball well." It has ends who can catch a pass a strong center in O'Brien, battle-wise guards in Rosenau and Kanter. Injuries in a few key spots could prove fatal to a squad which lacks real reserve strength...