Word: fatedness
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The stone, in almost perfect condition, created a sensation. A rumor spread through Mexico City that the workers had found the long-lost treasure of Moctezuma II, the ill-fated Aztec Emperor who was imprisoned by Cortées. But the find turned out to be even more important. Spurred...
"I am often struck at the limitations with which men of power pay the price for their domination over man kind." So remarked Henry James after being snubbed at a 1915 dinner party by Winston Churchill. Then 40 years old, the bumptious First Lord of the Admiralty seemed fated to...
DIED. Kenneth More, 67, veteran British stage and screen actor whose characterizations ranged from the rollicking buffoon of such films as Doctor in the House (1954) to the chin-up R.A.F. pilot of Reach for the Sky (1956); of Parkinson's disease; in London. "I seem fated to be...
The seven peace-keeping forces established by the U.N. since 1956 have had mixed success in trying to prevent the renewal of hostilities between old enemies. The violators of the truces, says Lieut. General William Callaghan, the Irish commander of the ill-fated UNIFIL in Lebanon, "are thumbing their noses...
Having jumped backward, the author suddenly leaps ahead. It is now 1980, and Jake is an English professor in Boston, still maimed by the events of two decades earlier: "McKay had once regarded it as the central task of his life to understand what had destroyed his family. Yet he...