Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President is too big for any one man; the country should be run by a Supreme Court. Too long the fate of the nation has been in the hands of mere politicians, among whom there is not a statesman in a thousand carloads...
Turning 80 this week on his North Carolina goat farm, Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg anticipated living to be 88, maybe even 99. Cried he: "It's inevitable, it's inexorable, it's written in the Book of Fate!" Reason: two of his great-grandfathers and one of his grandfathers expired at ages divisible by eleven...
...M.D.C. has already begun plans for widening the road between Memorial Drive and Fresh Pond Parkway. Chief Engineer Benjamin W. Fink said last night that these plans will have no effect upon the fate of the Hell's Half Acre area...
...move. Author Voelker's characters come most alive in the courtroom, in the thrust and parry of cross-examination and in the springing of tactical ambushes and legal traps by opposing counsel. It is quite ordinary writing but good entertainment, and few readers will turn aside until the fate of Lieut. Frederic Manion is finally decided...
...fairly steady drizzle of Shulman's arch patter ("Gloria hasn't been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...