Word: fate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve days of tangled, often tedious testimony to sift through the evidence. Then at week's end the jury of six men and six women filed out of the District of Columbia U.S. Courthouse's overheated Courtroom 21 to begin their deliberations on Bobby Baker's fate. Baker firmly denied the accusations embodied in his nine-count federal indictment for larceny, tax evasion and fraud. He did, however, admit to one piece of chicanery. Returning to the witness stand before the defense rested its case, the former Senate Democratic secretary once again invoked Old Friend Lyndon Johnson...
Looking toward the postwar period, Franklin Roosevelt was deeply concerned about IndoChina's fate under the French. "France has had the country," he told Secretary of State Cordell...
...inner peace was his sudden, unexpected elevation to U.N. Secretary-General in 1953. An entry in Markings, about the time of his reelection to a second term, shows a strong affirmation of the faith he had abandoned while he was still in his 20s: "Yes to God; yes to Fate; yes to yourself." Between his diplomatic chores, Hammarskjold began translating the writings of Martin Buber into Swedish, and the pages of Markings are increasingly strewn with quotes from the Bible...
Army officers who supported P'eng in 1959 probably realize that their interests lie with the anti-Mao, expert faction. But they face a dilemma. They don't want to risk another defeat, especially in this case, when no one knows (or likes to think about) the fate of the losers. Yet, they are not eager to give substantial help to the reds...
...persecution is perpetrated in an endless stream. Whoever utters the slightest sound of discontent is immediately suspected as a Communist. In that country a student, once tinged with "red," is unable to continue his studies--much less, to graduate. His relatives and friends will keep away from him. His fate is thus sealed! As far as I know, at Harvard University there is no progressive activity among the students. Some Chinese students once held a gathering of a purely friendly character, but immediately afterwards the immigration bureau found out who had attended the meeting and had them finger-printed, interrogated...