Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo, 140 miles east of the Chianti bottle, General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander of the Middle East, pored over reports telling the story of the battle. He sat in close communion with a thin, jug-eared man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder. Upon these two depended the fate of Allied power in the Mediterranean. In their strategical structure, Egypt is the keystone...
Five hundred presidents and deans met at Philadelphia last week to discuss the fate of educational institutions if the draft age is lowered and all able bodies students of college age are taken by the armed forces. The corps would allow--the military to supervise wartime education and would fully mobilize college facilities, according toe the report of the committee headed by Edmund E. Day, president of Cornell University...
Practically all characters in My World are mentally on all fours. Those who struggle into an erect position are mercilessly beaten over the head by a pixillated fate until they squat. Within the prison of life, says Thurber, are "smaller prisons" erected by bureaucrats. In them, man is caught "like a mouse in a trap in Sing Sing...
Once there was a foolish Freshman who came to Harvard filled with rabid notions of Economy. Consequently he Rebuffed all invitations to Subscribe to the CRIMSON with Great Gusto, little realizing the Awful Fate which was in store...
Author Heym's publishers believe that Hostages is "the first really great novel to be written in English" by a refugee from the Nazis. Coming at a time when the tragic fate of flesh & blood hostages is a steady newspaper item, Author Heym's fiction is likely to sell on the strength of its title alone...