Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anna Magnani had sharpened her passions on a flinty fate. She was born about 47 years ago and brought up on the wrong side of the Tiber. Her mother was a working girl and her father did a fade when Anna was a month old. At 17, she won admission to a dramatic school, and soon joined a rundown roadshow as a singer of stornelli, the street songs of a country where the streets are seldom cleaned...
...will continue to pursue a policy of German reunification in close and trusting cooperation with its allies," said Von Brentano. "It rejects any thought of endangering this infinitely valuable friendship and the support it implies by any hesitancy, inconstancy or lack of frankness. It knows very well that the fate of the German people would be sealed if it tried to barter the confidence and friendship of its allies for the sympathy of the Soviet Union, which has made it plain, at least for the present, that it wants to deny the German people a peaceful future in freedom...
Last week Joyita sat high and dry on a beach at Fiji, hugging her secret in silence, while official investigators from three nations pondered the problem. Perhaps, in time, they might find an answer better than that of the U.S. Navy captain who investigated the fate of Mary Celeste in 1873. "I hope and expect," he wrote in his official report, "to hear from her crew. But if we should never hear of them again, I shall remember with interest this sad and silent mystery...
...London last week, a divorce, action charging desertion against one Thomas Henry Miller, late of the Royal Navy, was indefinitely postponed. Reason: Miller cannot be found. The fate and whereabouts of picturesque "Dusty" Miller are locked in a maritime mystery as seemingly inscrutable as that which befell the master and men of the Mary Celeste more than 80 years...
...South Seas, Dusty Miller, who habitually stood his watches in native costume, had brought his little ship safely through many such perils, and on this, his last voyage, no storms of undue severity were reported. Yet Miller and his passengers never reached the Tokelaus. The first hint of his fate came more than a month later when Joyita, listing badly, half full of water but still afloat and seaworthy, was discovered wallowing alone and abandoned in a gently rolling sea some 600 miles off her course...