Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy Mitchell's fate had shown airmen what they could expect if they sounded off out of turn. As soldiers they agreed with the justice of Billy Mitchell's punishment, since he had grievously broken military protocol. They kept their mouths shut, except among themselves, worked mightily with what they had to turn out their limited crop of good airplanes, good pilots, good battle doctrine...
...Grass (he had), to be a little cadgy about money, to blossom a little senilely at his few remaining birthday parties, to welcome the less fantastic of his admirers. They were not the common workmen he had written for, but those poets and cultivated hangers-on who are the fate of poets in general. He kept adding to Leaves oj Grass. It had become "a habit." He wrote Democratic Vistas, a book of prose more perceptive of the weak spots in U.S. democracy than anything Whitman had written before. He had outlived his pre-Civil War hopefulness...
...Christian faith is "dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." Few theologians of any denomination hold such a belief. They say that Christianity can lose a war, can even go underground for centuries (as it did in the catacombs), but that, because of its divine origin, Christianity's fate is never wholly dependent on such worldly things...
...shrewd, practical, international politician, who knows very well that the fate of free China is bound up with that of a free U.S. and a free Britain-who believes it not as a matter of remote idealism but as directly as he believes his Bible-this campaign is a world danger...
...Government, that education is a national resource of first importance. Courses have been added in Russian, Arabic, Japanese. Says one senior: "We'd much rather compare the performance of a P-4O against a Japanese Zero plane than discuss the pros & cons of Union Now or the eventual fate of the Axis...