Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tool." Fine believes most people laugh as much as 1,000 times a day. If so, the news should alarm California Psychiatrist William Fry, who several years ago developed a theory that laughing is physically harmful and can actually kill you. That might still be a better fate than sitting through an academic conference on humor...
...state in whose territory they are located is either unwilling or unable to protect them." The rescue, Scranton added, "electrified millions everywhere, and-I confess-I was one of them." The British were nearly as emphatic in their backing of Israel, although the French-apparently concerned about the fate of the $19 million Air France jet that was still sitting at Entebbe-were characteristically ambivalent and careful not to insult Amin...
...behavior during the skyjacking episode. Almost all of them carefully avoided mentioning the embarrassing Ugandan "President for Life" in their speeches. Yet Amin kept himself in the spotlight by his verbal tussles with Kenya. His posture as injured party in the Entebbe drama was also weakened by the fate of Dora Bloch, 75, the sole hostage the Israelis left behind in Uganda (she was in a Kampala hospital at the time of the rescue). London asserts that Mrs. Bloch, who held dual Israeli and British citizenship, has been killed. According to reports from Uganda, she suffocated when security police gagged...
There is never any doubt that Trelkovsky will take over not only the living quarters of the previous tenant but her fate as well. Polanski is not interested in surprise endings: those visitations across the courtyard may be predictable, but they are all the more chilling because of that...
...Associated Harvard Alumni, they probably heard Pat Moynihan's parting shot to Harvard. Offering the domestic version of the doomsday-for-democracy spiel he perfected as U.N. ambassador, Moynihan theorized that America's "educated class" must take on the "challenge of reformation and reconstitution" to head off a "calamitous" fate at the hands of a young elite full of contempt for the liberal tradition of the West. The crowd--dominated by Harvard alumni, hardly the victims of the "liberal" system Moynihan was eulogizing--ate it up, especially when a handful of protesters perched on the steps of Widener briefly chanted...