Word: fateful
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Because her mother had Huntington's, Nancy realized that she herself had a 50% risk of carrying the defective gene. And if she had inherited that gene, her fate was sealed; she would eventually come down with the disease, which usually strikes adults between the ages...
...irascible Harry S Truman was hammered by Estes Kefauver in New Hampshire and faced an even stronger challenge from Adlai E. Stevenson, forcing Truman to call it quits. LBJ met the same fate in 1968 when "Clean" Gene McCarthy captured 42 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, giving Robert F. Kennedy '48 a reason to drop his hat into the ring...
...incumbents survived longer, only to lose in the general election. Gerald R. Ford, bruised and battered from a tough campaign against Ronald Reagan, could not hold on to the presidency in 1976. The winner of that race, Jimmy Carter, met the same fate four years later, when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 made another foray into presidential politics...
...With his performance on 60 Minutes Clinton may avoid Hart's fate, but he well knows the perils that would attend any further allegations of womanizing. As Clinton himself told TIME before the first Star story appeared, "The problem with peripheral stuff is that it can cause people to erase you from their minds. It's a way of their not having to make a firm judgment. They've got other candidates to consider, and it's easy for them to say, 'I don't know what to make of Clinton, so I'll look elsewhere.' If they say that...
...Crimson even has the guts to publish this, it will be but the first step. The collaborators must be brought to justice, and the power elite will be brought to their knees. To ensure that others do not meet the fate of "Grunwald," to search for truth, to fight to retake what was taken from us on January 15, 1992; these are what America is all about...