Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trick is to get a good lottery number. And maybe to have fate on your side...
...Sure, fate played a role in the Quincy House rooming lottery last spring. It never hurts to get the third lottery number. It never hurts when lottery numbers one and two allow you to get the room "because they know we would throw a lot of parties and create a lot of fun for Quincy House," which is the way it happened for Gerald S. Rideout...
...Rideout and his roommates hadn't left it completely up to fate. They had done all they could to get The Room in Quincy House--the room with the patio, the room everybody knows about...
...vacation in Yalta. It was then, Raisa recalls, that her husband told her, "We've got the most difficult time ahead of us. There is going to be political fighting . . . it's very alarming . . . ((But)) we mustn't give in to the conservatives . . . We mustn't surrender the fate of the country to cowboys. They would ruin everything...
...tense moments were all in a day's work for Garner, one of a handful of hearty scientists, pilots and technicians taking part in a ground-breaking and hazardous $700,000 annual U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service study of arctic polar bear populations. In an effort to follow the fate of more than 600 bears since the program's inception, the researchers have braved wind-chill factors of -59 degrees C (-75 degrees F), spartan living conditions, the constant threat of mechanical failures and the peril of being stranded on an ice pack. Last October two government biologists...