Word: fated
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...Okinawans, the special treatment afforded U.S. service members is symbolic of a deeper problem. The bases represent the latest face of the hard fate that Okinawa has endured since the once independent kingdom, the heart of the Ryukyu island chain, was annexed by Japan in 1879. The Japanese then tried with partial success to exterminate the local culture and language. Toward the end of World War II, 150,000 local people--nearly a third of the population--and 12,520 U.S. troops and 100,000 Japanese soldiers died there in the bloodiest of the campaigns in the Pacific...
...afraid I was going to hurt the team [if I kept playing injured]," Petruccelli said. "The guy that came in the game for me won the game. It was fate...
...Andie MacDowell) is dying slowly, bravely, of cancer, and his father Sid (John Turturro) cannot offer him much consolation. In the best of times, Sid is a tense and cranky figure, obsessively working on impractical inventions. In these, the worst of times, he is mostly preoccupied with cursing God, fate and Selma's doctors. The kid badly needs a dose of chicken soup and diversion...
While the proposal inches its way through the city's bureaucratic maze, its fate remains uncertain, as preservation groups and tenants renewed their objections...
Hussein Kamel: If there is a conversation between two people in which one of them criticizes any subject related to the regime, the fate of both of them is execution. Anybody who criticizes the regime, even in the slightest way, faces execution...