Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Safely back in Selma, the mayor thought he saw some irony in the affair. In an interview printed in the Selma Times-Journal, he said: "Fate plays some strange tricks. All of Selma, in fact the entire nation, has been flimflammed by the so-called civil rights movement for more than ten weeks. Then I went to Washington to televise the real truth of the Selma story and we got taken by a glib-tongued Negro...
...fate of India's Untouchables is special-and yet it is also typical. It is almost a metaphor for the condition of all minorities in Asia, for to some degree each Asian country has its Untouchables...
...Griffith lost his temper in the ring-when Benny Paret noted Emile's tight pants and his singsong Virgin Islands speech and questioned his masculinity. Paret died of brain injuries in that fight, and Griffith has brooded ever since over the massacre. "I try to think it was fate," he says. "I try real hard. But I always know that I was the guy Benny was boxing...
...then got himself photographed in the newspapers with a two-finger corna defiantly aimed skyward. Tossed into jail, Amati was provisionally sprung last week pending an appeal of his original conviction-based on his claim that the buffalo horns were legal because they were inside his property. Whatever his fate, the butcher's meaty argument has obviously touched millions of gesticulating Italians. In fact, his business has now doubled...
...beat off attack after attack. Taking command of the entire front, he launched a surprise assault and drove the Anzacs back to the beaches. "Seldom in history," wrote the British official historian, "can the exertions of a single divisional commander have exercised so profound an influence on the fate of a campaign and even the destiny of a nation." Within weeks, Colonel Kemal became a national hero; within a year, he became a general...