And very proudly and quietly she sat herself down again, waiting for the fateful words.

You'll have killed your own, He did not say the fateful word, but bit down hard on it and turned to the ladder.

The possibility had never occurred to him that, several minutes after allowing himself to speak the fateful words, he might still be free.

Sampson glanced down at the card in front of him that held the fateful words.

Then he returned to the control room and spoke the fateful words.

Now at these fateful words there arose a sigh of astonishment from all that heard them.

Then, someone at the front of the room yelled the fateful word "Pairings!"

Then came his fateful words to his friends: "Do you want to do more?"

Tim Jones, the performance director, fought to mask his sorrow as he delivered the fateful words.

I could not bring myself to say the fateful words.