Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of the President's busing moratorium and proposals for improving inferior schools remained in doubt in Congress. Although they probably enjoy strong support, they are opposed by some key committee chairmen, including the House Education Committee's Carl Perkins of Kentucky. As hearings opened in a Senate subcommittee, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson defended Nixon's proposals. Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton bluntly branded Richardson's arguments for the President's compensatory education plan "hypocritical hogwash...
...seriously, Brezhnev is worried that the U.S. and China may have made a secret pact that went beyond the bilateral bounds of the Sino-American communique. "How else can one interpret the statement at the Shanghai banquet that 'today our two peoples hold in their hands the fate of the future of the entire world'?" he said. But Brezhnev undoubtedly wants to talk to Nixon about his China trip before jumping to any hasty conclusions. "We are in no hurry with final assessments," he declared...
...Continent while keeping the Communist bloc tightly insulated from contacts with the West. Brezhnev threatened that the consequences of a failure by Bonn to approve the treaties would be extremely serious. Said he: "The Federal Republic of Germany is now faced with a choice that will determine the fate of its people and the attitudes of other states toward it for many years to come." He then added an ominous warning: "In the final analysis, it is a choice between a policy of peace and a policy...
Until Solzhenitsyn's letter, no Soviet citizen of international stature had openly demanded religious freedom for Russia's estimated 60 million Orthodox Christians. The writer's concern with the fate of the church is, in fact, recent. Although he was baptized in childhood, his faith scarcely survived the eleven years of prison and exile he endured under Stalin. A year ago, however, Solzhenitsyn received first communion in the Russian Orthodox Church...
...caviar, fur coats and gold cigarette cases. The source of the Baron's corrupting influence is his money and not his sexual tastes. But the audience soon forgets that fact, as the Baron's pursuit of Brain--and not the seductiveness of his wealth--becomes the movie's one fate markedly worse than death. Again, no effort is made to pinpoint the suggested relationship between the discrete deviance presented in the film and the power of the Nazi appeal...