Word: fate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fate of Iraq...
...designed to drive a man out of his mind. Sealed inside a steel prison, the submariner is bored stiff for weeks at a time. His air comes out of a machine; his sun is a light bulb. And in a few swift seconds of combat he may meet a fate that the rest of the world knows only as a statistic...
Legally under the code they can. Humanely, as the Smilja incident dramatically illustrated, grave problems are raised in consigning returnees to an uncertain fate back home. Since most Yugoslavs are economic refugees, more than half the 4,852 who crossed the Austro-Yugoslavian border since the crackdown began New Year's Day 1958 have been returned...
...heart, the sounds of his breathing, watching the electrical activity of his heart and muscles and taking his temperature and blood pressure, all by remote control and radio link. He may feel less sure in his mind as to the state of his psychological being. The curious finger of fate has pointed him out to be hurled into space to make the supreme test as to whether man can function and survive space travel. He has been chosen as the one single sample from all the billions of men that populate the earth to test for the first time...
...churchmouse of a brother and an old housekeeper in the family's Manhattan brownstone on East 57th Street. The last 20 years of his life were devoted almost exclusively to barren eccentricities designed to promote himself. In endless letters to the newspapers he ranted of his unjust fate. The letters were signed "Flashful Inventor," "Supreme Spirit of the Spheres," or simply "Transcendent Eagle...