Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bravo, Helmut Schmidt, for your superb courage and sangfroid. The world was watching in agony for the fate of the hostages and the credibility of the democratic process...
...Nearby Hinniyah suffered a similar fate. Burj al Shamali, the Palestinian refugee camp, fared somewhat better, although its hospital was half destroyed by bombs that killed nine children inside. Taking casualties at Tyre General Hospital, a few miles away on the coast, Dr. Yussek Iraki angrily said: 'All the people I have treated were 100% civilians. None was a Palestinian fighter...
...Kosinski perceives, one must make judgments without any hope of foreseeing the consequences of the choice. To take a moral stand requires a plunge into the unknown, the acceptance of a "blind date." One must pin the carnation to the lapel, stand by the lamppost and await an indefinite fate, a handsome beauty or a dilapidated reject. To Kosinski's frustration and disappointment, most Americans would rather stay home and watch television than stand on the street corner and wait for the unexpected
...easy to categorically state that money was the prime motivating factor driving men to create machines that would link the fate of each part of the country to that of the whole--the original railroad, the telegraph, the telephone and all their updated versions. Edison, certainly, was driven by a cause larger than money. He was an experimenter of prodigious energy, diving headlong into every problem that presented itself. He worked so hard at inventing that he rarely had time to spend the money he made, except on lab equipment or perhaps a new house. For Edison, money was simply...
...weeks Carter had been underscoring his concern about the fate of the energy bill by threatening to sacrifice his trip abroad for the sake of a last-minute, all-out onslaught on Capitol Hill. The threat had become a promise, and it was a promise he had to keep...