Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holds nothing more than ten days of bliss--at home for those who live in the region served by the Boston Weather Bureau, on the trains for those who live in "sunny" by distant California. Of course, now is the time when Professor Hanson's prediction of a dire fate for 60 percent of us will be put to the acid test. Those far away lights in the eyes of B. A. Johnson and "Dreamer" Dye, Ensigns, SC, portend something to those who know. We've also noticed a few wistful glances on Archie Aiken's face recently; could...
...during the slow years of my mother's unrelieved suffering, a somberness that was to make me stand apart and look upon excessive joy with suspicion, that was to make me selfconscious, that was to make me keep forever on the move, as though to escape a nameless fate seeking to overtake...
...Among Polish émigré groups, Mikolajczyk and his supporters have refused to recognize the decisions of the London émigré Government. It is possible that among this group and even among others there will be many people ready to take upon themselves the responsibility for the future fate of Poland and participate in a reorganized Polish Government." Two days later, Moscow's Pravda attacked Mikolajczyk for criticizing the Yalta agreement on Poland and thereby aligning himself with "Polish reactionaries who have placed themselves outside the ranks of the United Nations...
André Malraux, leftist French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope}, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the 1940 Battle of France, was still in the thick of it - leading his own 4,000-man F.F.I, army in the fighting near Strasbourg. Ranked a lieutenant colonel in the French Army, 49-year-old Malraux, who was once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined...
...offer to talk turkey came from Big Steel's President, Benjamin F. Fairless, as Western steel users prepared to meet this week in Salt Lake City to discuss the postwar fate of Western steel. In letting out the news, Fairless gave them a surprising new item to chew over. Big Steel, he said, is also ready to dicker with DPC to buy or lease the $110,000,000 steel plant at Fontana, Calif., built and operated by Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser...