Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lednicki, recognized as one of the chief Polish authorities on Russian Literature, was teaching in Cracow when the Germans invaded his native land. Because he was out of the city when the Nazi legions swarmed into it he escaped the concentration camp which was the fate of most of his colleagues...
Many a young man told his girl that there wasn't really more than one chance in 100 that he would be drafted.* Many a young man submitted good-naturedly to corner-store gibes at his certain fate. The jokes that were cracked were, more often than not, 1917 jokes, even such transmigratory Liberty Bond characters as Ed Wynn's "Weatherstrip" (so called because he kept his father out of the draft). The U. S. moved uncomplainingly on toward Registration...
...into his hair." There is a timely last chapter on the Reichswehr generals. Though more & more under the Nazi thumb, they are still the most independent group in the Third Reich. For by winning or losing the war, it is still the generals who will finally decide the fate of their goose-stepping Caesars and most of mankind...
...when Hap and Johnny save a burning oil well by slam-bang courage. As in countless previous pictures, Pat O'Brien loses his girl in the end to the ne'er-do-well he has reformed, shrugs his rounding shoulders, once again turns his face to buffeting fate...
...spiritual and ethical content has been exhausted from American education" with the abandonment of the Bible and the Classics as the core of the liberal curriculum. As a result, "our sons are cold to the agonies of the great tradition to which our culture belongs, indifferent to the fate of British democracy, though our national fate is inseparable from it, and are ready to call a policy which will leave our democracy to face totalitarian ruthlessness alone and isolated, a policy or 'realism...