Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just of high politics or powerful personalities but also of the most profound constitutional principles. In a far different context (a criminal case in which Ervin as a state supreme court justice argued to free a convicted man), he stated his first concern. "What may be the ultimate fate of the prisoner is of relatively minor importance in the sum of things," he wrote. "His role on life's stage, like ours, soon ends. But what happens to the law is of the gravest moment. The preservation unimpaired of our basic rules of procedure is an end far more...
...Tiger coaching ranks in September 1972 and last year directed the Bengal freshmen to a 15-5 record. He must have impressed a lot of people down in Tigerland, because it didn't take long for the Princeton athletic department to decide that it would much rather entrust the fate of the varsity to Semler rather than extending the horror show overseen by Quackenbush...
...foreign observers with good connections in Cairo, Sadat offered the job to as many as four Egyptian politicians, who wasted no time turning it down as an impossible assignment. Last week Sadat finally announced his choice: Anwar Sadat. "I have reached a decision," he said, "to accept my fate...
Crossroads. Whether or not Gray gives up, far more is at stake than the fate of one man. At issue is the FBI's well-deserved reputation for disregarding political considerations in its dogged pursuit of the facts upon which evenhanded justice must be based. On a more fundamental level, the struggle raises difficult questions about the role of a national police force in a democracy and just who should be entrusted with policing the police. The FBI after J. Edgar Hoover is at a crossroads, and the national interest is clear: a balance must be found between a police...
...that Hansard recorded as "runt" (which at least rhymed with the actual word). He once became so enraged with one Liberal minister that he dumped a glass of water on him. That minister was Paul Hasluck, who later became Governor General of Australia and, in an antipodean twist of fate, found himself swearing Whitlam into office last December...