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Word: fateful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here's a tale will e'er be told, the fate of the Admiral Spee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Bulldog Breed | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Thirteenth of December was her unlucky fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Bulldog Breed | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...silver ships that droned far overhead passed the city by. No enemy warships threatened the mined, ice-locked harbor. No hostile army was within 200 miles. A tense, ominous quiet settled down over the capital as its inhabitants waited for news of the great battle that would decide the fate of Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Destroy the White Snakes! | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...that he'd never look well amid the mysterious implements of a boudoir table. Eau de Cologne bothered him, and eyebrow pencil embarrassed him with its frank fraudulence. And yet there he was destined to lie-surrounded by the rouge pots and the powder puffs. It was a sad fate, but it was inevitable, and Vag believed with Confucius that the inevitable must be accepted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...looked last week as if, excepting the unlikely eventualities of extensive U. S. aid for China or of internal collapse in Japan, China's military dragon might suffer the fate of the dragon Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried-be given a good long time to sing its last sad words, then get it in the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Rabbit into Dragon | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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