Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of all the peoples of conquered countries, I protest. What a cruel fate awaits them, supposing America shall have set them free, if they are merely to exchange one kind of bondage for another! What reason is there to believe that American engineers, doctors, movie executives and others, after only four months' training and without precise knowledge of the necessary foreign languages, would be fitted to govern countries better than the natives themselves? It is certain that they would not. It is only reasonable to suppose that all the countries now subject to foreign rule are planning exactly...
...powers would bring moral and spiritual disaster for their own people no less than for those of the conquered nations. As Christians we face these facts and wholeheartedly assume our share of the price which must be paid in effort, sacrifice and suffering to save mankind from such a fate...
...year of hate. But still the German progress was only slightly slower than in France. At least for the moment, Russia's Maginot Line of men and tanks and guns was holding on the plains before Stalingrad. But southward the North Caucasian flatlands were suffering the same fate as the Dutch-Belgian lowlands. The Germans had wheeled south of Marshal Timoshenko's main defenses and were overrunning lightly defended territory up to the Caucasian foothills. Their swift advance down the transCaucasian railway left one body of the Red Army, probably a small one, cut off as were...
...time when sacrificial blood is flowing freely and uncomplainingly in so many other quarters and when shipping is important enough to decide a nation's fate, it is sickening indeed to realize the treacherous apathy that is allowed to exist among a class of workmen who, by the very token of their skill, have so much to offer, positively and directly, to the cause of freedom...
...grey streets of Hengyang city, in hundreds of broken bits, were splashed the remains of Japanese B-4 bombers. Round the city, in the fields and hills, were the fire-blackened skeletons of other Jap ships. All 17 of them were evidence of the Jap's fate when he gave up bombing Chungking after one attempt and tried another target...