Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was merely a symptom. Underneath lay a new, realistic conviction that Britain's fate was closely tied to Russia's. Tanks-for-Russia Week was only a beginning. Tanks happened to be Russia's most immediate need, but other needs would develop far faster than the British could satisfy them...
...land of silk and honey is to marry an American girl, so disguising his evil design with sulfurous similes and purple passion, he dazzles the dewey-eyed teacher from a sticks town in the States and wins her with a round-the-clock courtship. As we suspected, though, fate plays the trump card, and he falls like a lame duck right into her lap. The plot thickens when a rival strumpet, played to perfection by Paulette Goddard, disillusions Olivia about Boyer's soiled past, but the Rumanian's heart of gold, generated in the nick of time by the Hollywood...
...Patchingsschwankaus Wien (Viennese Carnival Joke). The mere name of Verdi was a slogan for Italian nationalists, because it was an acrostic for the then uncrowned "Victor Emmanuel Red'ltalia" (King of Italy). Sibelius' Finlandia rallied Finns when Finland belonged to Russia. And nowadays the opening "Fate" theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (corresponding to the Morse code . . . ) symbolizes occupied Europe's V campaign...
Unlike his colleague, "Frisky" Merriman, Professor Murdock has refused for several years to act in the annual House play. When he once played a drunken porter who drove the other characters off the stage with a blunderbuss, the audience went wild, and he modestly decided not to tempt fate with another appearance...
Perhaps professional jealousy sometimes led Benito to gloat somewhat over Adolf -for Benito well knew that in Russia the ghastly train of Nazi conquest was far behind schedule. But Benito could not have taken very much of this neurotic satisfaction-he also knew that his own fate was linked with Adolf's, that the worries of the German High Command were, most pressingly...