Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though it is fatal in 90% to 95% of untreated cases, kala-azar can nearly always be cured with antimony compounds...
Harbury, a graduate student in Applied Physics, was working in a field which requires high voltage but relatively low current. Shocks are somewhat frequent in the electronics laboratories but ordinarily low currents do not prove fatal...
...absurdity is not the University's. Can it be that international organizations, national and local governments, other public institutions, and industries cannot use more experts? Shall a complex world let laymen handle so many of its plans? We may find that it is a costly business, possibly a fatal business, to make our universities practice "negative guidance," to limit the supply of experts, and then to find out, too late, that we needed them after...
...tall order; but anything less might well turn the Marshall Plan's success into fatal failure...
Robert Lowry's first book, Casualty, published in 1946, was a story of stagnation in a U.S. Army camp in Italy, of sullen enlisted men, buck-passing officers, drunkenness, boredom, brief and fatal outbreaks of violence. His second, Find Me in Fire (1948), told of the return of a crippled soldier to his home town after the war, and of his inability to find a place for himself in it again. The Wolf That Fed Us, published earlier this year, was a collection of eight war stories, which had the spare narrative, the graphic power and something...