Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...runs over with optimism as he discusses the chances of the 1940 Red Sox to upset the all-powerful New York Yankees in this week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post. In an article prepared with George Kirksey, Cronin says that the Yankees have a "date with fate" and that their great machine is starting to come apart at the seams...
...other who ever achieved stardom, his passage into maturity may not, as it has to others, mean his passage into professional oblivion. It is not conceivable that Jackie Cooper or Freddie Bartholomew might bloom into a Spencer Tracy. It is conceivable that Mickey might. If he does avoid the fate of Jackie Coogan, et al., he will have his Mom and the old theatrical trunk in which he was raised to thank, as well as his rough-&-tumble personality and physique. In fact, he does not like so much attention to be paid to his personality...
Hardly has the fate of Finland been settled according to customary jungle-law than the European capitals are busy passing the buck. Helsinki blames Stockholm, Paris, and London; London blames Stockholm; Stockholm, London. Finland is fettered; the Allies have lost face; and a rare opportunity to strike Germany on her open flank is gone. Aggression scores another triumph; and the democracies smart under a defeat they feel might have been averted...
Playing at Worcester, the Yardling fencing team was defeated for the second time in a row by Worcester Academy, 17 to 19. Although the Freshmen won the sabre division, 5 to 4, the preceding losses in foil and epee had already sealed the fate of the Yardlings...
...fate of Finland had become a matter of time, and accident. If Field Marshal Mannerheim's able commanders could continue to sell their ground dearly and slowly, then Russia might have no more than the Karelian Isthmus by the time spring's thaws and freshets came to the aid of the defenders. And then if-and only if-manpower and materiel came from other countries in ever-increasing quantities, Finland might turn the tide. With Russian bombs falling on the Swedish town of Pajala and Sweden approaching a crisis over help to the Finns, with Turkey growing restless...