Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a month, he had had a secret service guard in case of the emergency that had now come. Speeding down Pennsylvania Avenue in a White House car, Harry Truman, hard-working product of small-town Missouri, had little time to think of the sudden turn of fate. He had dreaded the burden that might be laid on him. Now it was here...
Better, perhaps (though this was not our fate...
...staff, hearing that laugh, knew that Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., after 37 years of soldiering, was content with his first taste of major battle. Until now, fate had teased him. He had learned to fly in World War I, then had been denied overseas service. At the start of World War II, commanding in Alaska, he was sitting in a strategic hot spot, seemingly destined for speedy, decisive action; but the war, lightly singeing his area, had swirled southward, leaving him in the quiet northern shadows...
...sudden death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at this moment in our history is a world tragedy of such magnitude as to render trivial all conventional expressions of grief and homage. Friends of freedom in all countries must respond to this challenge given them by fate and insure by their efforts the realization of his aims...
...Wheel. Why had it taken so long, been so difficult to agree on Germany's postwar fate? The easy alternatives-a "hard" or "soft" peace-missed the nub of the problem. In principle, everyone wanted the peace to be hard. The real nub was that Germany-even that smoking ruin-was still Europe's hub. Bombs had not budged it from the Continent's rich center. More than half its industries were workable; of those not working more were damaged than actually demolished...