Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behave in Morocco, where women must never be spoken to, no matter how courteously, no matter what the pretext. Said the orders: "Regarding Moslem women, you must put aside all your own preconceived notions and ideas. You must remember, your conduct in this matter may decide the fate of the campaign." U.S. boys from Pleasant Valley, Spencerville and The Bronx were discovering that soldiering had a lot of complications to it that no one had ever told them about at home...
...fate of the Italians in the Desert, as reported by TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder...
Throughout the whole battle area, from the El Alamein line to Mersa Matrûh, large pockets of Italian soldiers, abandoned to their fate, wearily sought some British soldier or some British unit to take them back to prisoners' camp where they would get bully-beef and biscuits, but more than anything else a pint of water per man. When rain fortunately fell the other day, these bunches of Italians turned their faces to the sky and allowed the cooling blessing from heaven to trickle down their throats...
What will be the fate of the nation's colleges under the new situation obviously brought about by this bill has only been hinted at by educators and government officials...
...submarine man has had phenomenal luck, has lived in relative safety, despite the fact that he must risk death at the hands of friend or foe. Up to last week only three U.S. subs were "overdue and presumed lost," as the Navy communiqués intone their fate. One more was demolished by its own crew to prevent its capture in the Philippines; another sank in a collision off Panama. But German submarines in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic have had less luck, a higher rate of loss.* In World War I Germany lost 178 out of 390 submarines...