Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Jack Peurifoy was U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, he and his two sons were in an automobile accident. Jack Peurifoy and his younger son, a normal, healthy lad then 9 years old, were killed. But Clinton, 14, the spastic, survived-"by one of those forever puzzling strokes of fate," as Admiral Brown put it. Brown also reported that before he died Jack Peurifoy had come "to really believe that God, in His way which passes all human understanding, was preparing a favorite spot for a little boy who must spend his earthly days as a hopeless cripple...
Speculation on the part of Boston sports columnists as to the fate of football head coach Lloyd P. Jordan was generally unfavorable towards the University as of yesterday evening's papers, with most scribes claiming that the University planned to fire Jordan because he could not produce winning football at Harvard...
...courtship of Hilda is punctuated by Casimir's sky-scanning Delphic queries: "Are the Life-Gods and the Fate-Gods willing?" Hilda is willing, and there is scarcely a dull moment spent with the count as he 1) sees his first roller-skating show wrecked by a storm, 2) witnesses a local bigwig being shot to death by a bordello madam, 3) two-times Hilda with a carnival doxy billed as ''Phazma the Phlame Girl." 4) has his second roller-skating show filched by a double-crossing partner, 5) goes back to the sea with visions...
...Manhattan's Crowell-Collier Building one day last week, employees lingered at their desks long after their day's work was done. Above them, on the 18th floor, the company's board of directors was deciding the fate of the long-ailing fortnightly Collier's and the monthly Woman's Home Companion. As the hours wore on, some staffers broke out bottles to brace them selves for the expected shock. At 10:30 it came. Board Chairman and Editor in Chief Paul Smith announced that Collier's would fold with the Jan. 4 issue...
...scholar," which Hyyam's oblique remarks create. When in the synagogue he is nudging his father to ask for money, he thinks, "I was faced with an iron will pretending to be religious ecstasy." The story is so readable because of the suspense with which we wait for fate to turn Hayyem's small successes into monstrous failures. His greatest early triumph, losing his virginity ("Without any kind of preliminaries, on top of a flour sack we got completely mixed up together"), produces two months later, a baby, for which he is convinced to pay "two month's salary...