Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that humid Wednesday evening in New York, total strangers gathered to share a common fate, waiting outside Gate 27 to board a 7-hr. 15-min. flight to Paris. There was the contingent of high school kids from Pennsylvania off to France for a field trip; there was the 11-year-old exchange student returning home after collecting loads of Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks basketball memorabilia; the Connecticut engineering manager planning a romantic interlude for the woman he hoped would agree to become his fiance; the mother who overcame her fear of flying so she could tour medieval...
...younger heroes are fewer but conspicuous: the Don's Adonis-like grandnephew Croccifixio ("Cross") De Lena and his film-goddess girlfriend, Athena Aquitane. The book's fools and villains are ruled by passions, impulses and grotesque egos. A degenerate gambler and loudmouthed deadbeat lurches obnoxiously toward his inevitable fate. A hit man, perversely named Dante, wears gaudy Renaissance-style hats and takes too much pleasure in his work...
...amendments would only affect schools where the DOD wants to create or maintain a program and the school refuses. Because Harvard ROTC cadets participate in MIT's program, experts say the University is not likely to be affected regardless of the fate of these bills...
Bill R. Teator, a spokesperson for Solomon, says he was, in fact, hopeful about the fate of the ROTC clauses in the Senate because of the support of senators such as Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...have parents who are dysfunctional, and famous too, is a cruel and unusual fate. (Maybe not so unusual nowadays...