Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answer: "In the course of the last 20 years, France has had to absorb a refugee population of Russians, Italians, Jews, Germans, Austrians, Spaniards and Czechs, amounting to nearly 4,000,000 - one-tenth of the total population. . . . To compare the fate of these refugees to that of liberals in Germany, Russia or Spain today is nonsense...
...Crimson foilmen however, are certain to show up well, and it it quite possible that they will annex the foil championship as they did last year. The fate of the other two weapons is uncertain, but the opposition will be a good deal stiffer than Seton Hall was, and Seton beat the Peroymen...
...result is a surprisingly pleasant though simple tale. Richard Greene's broad shoulders take on the burdens of an inventor, and as Robert Fulton he covers the New York waterfront of 1807 with punches and an English accent until his "follyboat" is a success. Although he suffers the common fate of Hollywood history-heroes and looks about half the forty-two years he should have, Greene does manage to show enough gusto and sincerity to make his role fill its proper part in the picture...
...wave of sympathy here and abroad for Finland, while the fate of Czechoslovakia and Poland has left the world emotionally untouched, seems to indicate that the world's interest is not so much in assisting Finland as it is in ganging up on Russian" he declared. "Even in America there are indications of that frame of mind...
...many of our comrades fell even at victory's gate, Theirs was the death of heroes, hers an inglorious fate...