Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the fatal mistake of talking money often . . . Absorption in merely material things undermines the priestly spirit. It disposes us to appraise our people in dollars and cents [and] has made many a priest cold and cruel. It has made others vulgar and abusive . . . Many a time good Catholics would like to bring a non-Catholic friend to church, but they refrain from inviting him because they fear the effect of one of the tirades to which they are frequently subjected...
Decompression at such altitudes is in itself not fatal (monkeys have withstood it at 75,000 feet), provided the victim is returned almost immediately to a lower altitude. But humans black out in about 15 seconds, too little time for a pilot to descend to a tolerable altitude...
...July 19 issue of TIME carries a story on the fatal crash in Mexico of an aircraft chartered by the joint U.S.-Mexican commission fighting aftosa (hoof & mouth disease) . . . Certain statements have caused embarrassment to the Military Air Transport Service and, unfortunately, are not substantiated by the facts as we know them...
Like most midget men, Schindler does not agree that the crowd's lust for blood is the basis of the sport's popularity. In fact, attendance has been known to drop after a fatal accident. Critics of the sport have overlooked its obvious, uncomplicated charms. It is fast, hotly competitive, requires skill and nerve and, like most crowd-pleasing American pastimes, involves lots of noise. When half a dozen cars whine down the straightaway inches apart and fling into a screeching slide around a curve, the drivers brush lightly against the wings of death...
...from a lot of crime fiction to be worth all the documentary bother. Semi-documentaries are verging, in fact, toward formula. If they are to realize their fine potentialities-or even stay as good as they started, they need new ideas and new problems. Self-repetition is not immediately fatal; but it brings death to the door, and leaves the door on the latch...