Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been groaning under the ills of insurrection in the ranks, irregular support from the public, the musical tastes of Conductor Karl Krueger and the uncompromising management of Board President Henry H. ("I like this way") Reichhold (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week it looked as if the ills might prove fatal, though not before President Reichhold, the symphony's chief supporter, had delivered himself of remarks at the deathbed...
Ever since bubonic plague, the fearsome "Black Death" of the Middle Ages, reached the West Coast from China in 1900, U.S. health officials have waged ceaseless war against it. In the century's first quarter, the U.S. had 483 cases, 60% of them fatal. Then U.S. preventive measures (primarily rodent control) took effect: between 1925 and 1947 there were only 22 cases. Last week, for the first time in two years, two U.S. cases were identified, both in New Mexico...
This eerie blend of fatalism and foolishness formed the background for the Marshall mission. Painstakingly, the white paper gives the now painful details: the suspension of arms shipments to Chiang to allow the U.S. a brief, bootless masquerade as a neutral arbiter between Chiang and the Communists; and General Marshall's increasing infatuation with the dream of building a middle-of-the-road "liberal" party from scattered political factions in a nation at fatal war with itself. From those factions that inspired such hope, only one leader later rose to power: General Li Tsung-jen, who last year proposed...
...emotions. Author McCarthy's wit sparkles very nicely as long as she is standing the false gods of contemporary intellectualism on their heads and displaying her theory-ridden victims against a backdrop composed of the simple facts of life. Nonetheless, most of The Oasis has just the same fatal flaw as the Utopia it describes-it is built entirely of disembodied ideas and peopled with puppets. As an intellectual essay it tinkles some pretty bells, but as fiction it is about as robust and complete as a lopped-off head...
Despite its gloom over the Senate's fatal ratification" of the North Atlantic pact, the arch-isolationist Chicago Tribune (circ. 957,000) still found one ray of sunshine last week. Cried the Trib: there is now, in Washington, "an outpost of American principles . . . better provisioned, better sited and no less valiantly defended, we hope, than young George Washington's Fort Necessity."* What Trib Publisher Bertie McCormick meant was that he had just bought the Washington Times-Herald (circ. 278,000) from the seven "faithful employees" to whom his cousin, the late Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, had bequeathed...