Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter how many furies may frown or how fierce may be the bludgeonings of fate, I shall continue with a persevering faith to cling to those ideals which those great Americans who have gone before us gave unto us. ... I shall ever be mindful of the fact that if our community is to experience a resumption of prosperity . . . such resumption can only come when ... the proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious...
Meanwhile Adolf Hitler who seldom hesitates, had put his fate again to the test. The rape of Scandinavia was certain to cover him with the world's odium. The rest of the world was already against him. His gamble was that if his stroke were decisive the rest of the world would no longer count. It remained to be seen whether he had overreached himself...
...Paris midnight tolled and the 2O0th day of World War II began last week with the Chamber of Deputies locked in secret session. Fate of the Daladier Cabinet was at stake. Cabbies, huddled outside, figured the square-rigged Premier must be taking on his massive chin outspoken criticism from many Deputies because of the war's military standstill...
...Black Lion has been a teacher, soldier, politician and peanut-farmer. He hates Communists. In a recent debate on the fate of the Communist Deputies, he roared: "What France really needs is toimport a few more good anthropophagites like me and we would eat 'em alive." As a good Mohammedan, he has three wives and seven legitimate children. "Two wives," says Diouf, "are a necessity for every normal man. A third is apt to be expensive and thefourth is a downright luxury." He loves practical jokes, such as collecting a huge crowd of Frenchmen on the banks...
...teen-age granddaughter, Ellie May (Ginger Rogers). Their mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has become a wistful and underpaid trull, the sole support of her family and her gin-drinking scholar husband (Miles Man-der). Ellie May, a pig-tailed slum Diana, is barely saved from her mother's fate by Joel McCrea as she is racing (in a big car with her mother's ex-boy friend) toward San Francisco...