Word: fated
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...between the two legendary ironclad men-of-war-the first of its kind in naval history-wound up in a banging, clanging draw, and in May 1862 the Merrimack was scuttled to keep it from falling into the hands of the advancing Union forces. The Monitor met a different fate. Nine months after the fight, she sank in a gale off Cape Hatteras, N.C., taking 16 members of her 63-man crew down with her. The precise spot where the ship-with her eight layers of 1-in. iron plates and two 111n. guns in a revolving turret-went down...
EVERY YEAR Gerry Moshell chooses an opera for the Lowell House Music Society that is far beyond the scope of Harvard instrumentalists and local singers, and every year he manages to bring it off. With a string of three major successes behind him, this year Moshell tempted fate and selected Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, a work demanding an orchestra of virtuosi and a cast capable of tossing off the most treacherous vocal lines without strain. His most outrageous choice, it is his most outrageous success...
There is, of course, no guarantee that the same fate will not befall the Arrow committee's proposals. But the department has embarked on a major attempt to reform its curriculum with the Arrow Committee but one of six committees set up to review areas of the graduate and undergraduate curriculums...
...Israel, the fate of the prisoners is an intensely emotional national issue. As a result, Kissinger's arrival from Damascus with the P.O.W. list in his pocket produced the warmest welcome he has ever received in Israel. Kissinger had previously informed the Israelis that the list contained fewer names than the 102 soldiers that Israel had listed as missing. To reduce the shock and bitterness, Premier Golda Meir's government abruptly changed its list of missing to 80 names. The Syrians, however, listed only 62 soldiers, which meant that 18 of the 80 were still unaccounted for; their...
...Postern of Fate, Christie...