Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fate of the contempt action was still not clear last night. While Congress is not in session, a committee can vote a contempt citation and submit it to the Speaker, when then turns it over to the District Attorney. The last step is grand jury action, possible indictment, and they trial
...second act is in a different tone entirely. Here Adam and his disciple. Alter Ego, meet their fate at the hands of their creations. And here the Capeks lose their sense of satire and even of drama and let their play degenerate into a mass of obscure symbolism and meaningless, unmotivated action...
Clearing the Air. At Paris, Russia and the West had struggled over seemingly picayune points of the treaties with Italy, Finland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria. Yet all the issues had a bearing on the fate of all Europe, set the framework for the critical struggle over the German treaty. The Big Four at the Waldorf were likely to reach the German treaty in an atmosphere greatly clarified since six months...
...never met .the mysterious relative whose name drives Taylor into queer fits of hysterical reticence. Unlike the audience, she is consumed with curiosity and foreboding about her missing inlaw. Amid some embarrassing melodrama, it begins to look as if Taylor is a scoundrel, maybe a murderer, and-worst fate of all-the short side of a romantic triangle...
...utilities) had left the square in darkness, the loudspeakers hushed. Meanwhile, at another rally of the free electorate (complete with loudspeakers) Georgi Dimitroff, onetime chief of the Comintern and head of Bulgaria's Communists, warned anyone considering voting against the Government party: "It is worth remembering the fate of Draja Mihailovich in Yugoslavia...