Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the final counts were coming in from each of the 3,072 counties of the U. S. In a few States-Washington, Massachusetts, Missouri, Kansas. New Hampshire-the fate of Governors depended on the final count, a recount, or perhaps on the tally of absentee ballots. Election oddities bubbled out of the county tallies: in Lincoln County, N. Mex., old stamping-and-shooting ground of Billy the Kid, Willkie and Roosevelt were tied. So were they in Gilpin County, Colo., in Marinette County, Wis. In almost uninhabited Armstrong County, S. Dak., nobody voted...
...power. Salonika is a back door to Central Europe, a jumping-off place to the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. Rocky Greek islands straggle across the Aegean to the shores of Turkey. The Peloponnesian Peninsula lies close to Italy; Crete, halfway to Africa. In this war Greece's fate was settled at Brennero on Oct. 4, when Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini planned their drive to the east. For Greece is the key to control of two of the three routes to the east : by land and sea through Turkey, by sea via the Mediterranean. Even the third route...
Into the hands of Draft Board 47 in the basement of Phillips Brooks House will fall the fate of 2500 Harvard men. Five volunteer workers from Precinct Two will handle the classification and physical examinations of all those living at our of state addresses, although their local boards will still retain jurisdiction...
...credit me with having been in jail as a conscientious objector in the first World War. I hope I should be willing, though, of course, not anxious, to go to jail in support of my deepest convictions, but I have been so fortunate that such has never been my fate, either in the World War or at any other time. I have been arrested on occasion but not during the World War, in connection with free speech and similar fights, in all of which I have been able so far to emerge victorious...
...destroyed at the precise moment when a big Loyalist offensive begins. If the bridge can be destroyed, the offensive may succeed. If the offensive succeeds, the struggle of the human race against fascism may be advanced a step. The courage of the Spanish peasants is linked to the fate of all mankind...