Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long run, however, the most important issue decided at the polls this fall may be the fate of Proportional Representation. Cambridge has had PR since 1941, and at one time or another 22 cities across the country have used this type of electoral system. Cambridge is now the only one left--a fact pounded to death by PR's opponents...
...human costs alone, thousands of American soldiers will be killed. In terms of foreign policy, the chase for "victory" will lend increasingly voice to those who would meet revolution anywhere with military intervention. Domestically, the need for a war consensus could threaten civil liberties, place in doubt the fate of controversial programs for The Great Society, and inflame even further a public opinion which tolerates no concessions to the Communist threat...
...twelve-story structure built to Nkrumah's taste-the luxurious bulletproof, bomb-resistant VIP hotel, known to local wags as "the Maginot Hilton." Marveling at the spacious conference room, Kwame's official weekly Spark was awestruck. "It is in this room that the fate of Africa is to be decided," it said. "It is here that Africa, mourning for her enslaved children still under oppression, will look for comfort...
...only bemoan the fate of this poor play, too intellectual for Broadway and too epic for anywhere else. Still Michael Cacoyannis, so promising in the past, can shy away from greatness only with shame. For unless this production is reworked to achieve its potential, The Devils will remain a better play to read than...
Some of the demonstrators may face an even more horrendous fate-Army duty in Viet Nam. The Pentagon last week issued a draft call for 45,224 men in December, the largest monthly quota since the Korean War. They may be needed. Last July, when President Johnson ordered an increase in the size of the armed forces, he predicted that monthly inductions would rise to only 35,000 men. However, instead of a planned buildup of 125,000 U.S. troops in Viet Nam, the U.S. force there has already grown to 145,000, and it will pass...