Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no control. I may eventually hit the sidewalk. I may spin here in mid air forever, continually fascinated by my four limbs, unattached to any points around me. I may suddenly swoop back up and find myself breathless on the top of the building. Not knowing my fate, I ponder my origin: Did I jump or did I fall? Am I in control...
...some important U.S. policymakers no longer hold counterintelligence an indispensable function and so strongly believe in the durability of detente that they are uncomfortable with a clandestine organization that persists in regarding the KGB as a serious threat. In this respect, Angleton's departure is reminiscent of the fate of a fictional counter-intelligence man, George Smiley, the sad hero of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fired during a staff shake-up at the British Secret Service, Smiley was later called back to root out a suspected "mole," or traitor, who had burrowed deeply...
...implications of this ruling are enormous. Doctors will probably continue to perform early abortions when there is no question about a fetus' inability to survive outside the womb. But, fearful of sharing Edelin's fate, they may be less likely to take a chance on late-term abortions. The Boston decision is likely to please antiabortionists, who have been trying for nearly two years to overturn or circumvent the Supreme Court's decision. But it may well work untold hardship for thousands of unhappily pregnant women, who may now find that although late abortions are technically legal...
...from the National Palace to a secret hideout in the country. The military rulers do not want the former Emperor to be killed, because they know that they would be blamed for his death, and they are still acutely sensitive to the reaction of other African leaders to his fate...
Jack Tate, who returned to the U.S. and married, was unaware of Zoya's fate and of the existence of his daughter until 1963. An American guide at a 1959 U.S. exhibit in Moscow had met Zoya and heard her story, and after a four-year search for Tate finally located him. His letters to Zoya were returned by the Soviet post office until 1973, when one was delivered to her by hand. Since then Tate, a retired rear admiral living in Orange Park, Fla., has been corresponding with his lost family. In a recent letter to Zoya...