Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abandon several provinces. Soldiers had no time to organize orderly retreats. In northern Quang Tri province, one of the army's best regional defense groups suffered a 15% desertion rate just before the Communist attack on the once lovely Hue; most of the deserters were concerned about the fate of their families. The retreat from Hue reached the frightening proportions of a stampede. Soldiers left behind 105-mm. howitzers and threw away rifles...
...thought we had a good team," said Barnaby, "but we were wiped out by fate and by our luck with those damned illnesses...
...must not think of Waldo (Robert Redford) as merely a daredevil, idly tempting fate. Rather, he is a distillation of the romantic attitude common among the first generation of aviators. Their feeling was that the suddenly accessible sky offered not just a beauty and a freedom the earthbound could never know, but a purifying simplicity as well. In those early days, there were well known limits of performance against which one pressed, hoping through technique and aeronautical invention, to redefine them. There was also a direct correlation between talent and success (which could be defined simply as survival) that seemed...
After the Democratic landslide last fall, it looked as if a lot of lame-duck Republicans were going to have to leave Washington-a fate dreaded by politicians who have grown accustomed to the power and perquisites available in the nation's capital. But the anxieties of many of them have been allayed; they are going to stay put, thanks to the benevolence of President Ford who once served in Congress with them. He has already appointed a dozen G.O.P. election losers to Government at salaries not too far below their congressional pay of $42,500 a year...
...sense Bok's plan is enlightening because it finally makes clear the way Harvard feels it serves society. It seems to confirm Pusey's fears about the fate of American universities which had always had "a peculiarly practical orientation," and "very little--perhaps too little--of the ivory tower." Harvard has hardly been an ivory tower these past few years. Its reliance on government funds (and more recently, with the Med School's Monsanto contract, on industrial funds) continues to increase. And its impact on government has been significant--Ford's administration is the first to have three former Harvard...