Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler may well have guffawed at the idea of no less than seven generals of the U.S. Army being detailed to decide the fate of eight of his lowly underlings. But the generals who were to try the eight Nazis whom U-boats jettisoned on U.S. beaches did not see the joke...
...Russians and the Germans, in these July days of 1942, are fighting the battle that may decide the world's fate...
Though Moscow spoke of the convoy's safe arrival in port, Berlin stepped up its claims by week's end, reporting that every one of the 38 supply ships had been sunk, only five escort vessels left afloat. Whatever the convoy's actual fate, Germany was making its strongest bid to smash the Arctic supply route...
...Costello) by the cocksure ruthlessness with which he prevents her marrying the man (Joseph Cotten) she has always loved. His selfishness and self-righteous pride of birth ruin his own love affair with Lucy (Anne Baxter), the vital daughter of Inventor Cotten. His character is his family's fate...
...last year Fate brought Greece worse enemies than kings. The Goat knew they might even swarm over the sea to Crete, where weary-faced Greek and British soldiers were trying frantically to prepare for them. The Goat knew, too who the Man was that the English brought one night to his mountain cottage. Next morning he pointed down toward the valley; it had sprouted parachutes, brilliantly red, green and white. The English said they must take the Man at once to a secret rendezvous where a warship was expected. So the Goat guided them over crooked goat tracks only...