Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likes to read history books, Kennedy can hardly help recalling 1929 and its aftermath. The smashup of 1929, leading to the Great Depression, crushingly ended the rarely interrupted Republican dominance that began with Abraham Lincoln. For a proud Democratic President, it would be hard to imagine a fate more hideous than to become the Democratic version of Herbert Hoover...
...friends. He repeated the essence of his defense: "I had to obey the laws of war and of my flag." As the noose was placed about his neck, the condemned man spoke his last words: "After a short while, gentlemen, we all shall meet again. Such is the fate of all men. I have lived believing in God and, believing...
...General Jouhaud, to appeal for a new trial. While the French Supreme Court took the matter under advisement, Jouhaud was granted a stay of execution. But there were suggestions that the angry De Gaulle might still insist on his death. The government promptly began using Jouhaud's fate as a political weapon to try to subdue the S.A.O. His life, French authorities hinted broadly, depended on the S.A.O. terrorists' immediately easing up on their attacks against Moslems in Algeria. At week's end, the S.A.O. seemed not yet to have got the message: as before, they continued...
...whose still faithful followers won a surprising 35% of the vote and 45 congressional seats in elections last March. But the action may have a wider effect. Argentines, and their free but prudent press, have until now shown themselves curiously lethargic to their country's fate. Last week political parties on all sides cried outrage and defiance. "The recess decree is a juridical absurdity," snapped Olegario Becerra, the acting presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies. "Tomorrow, insofar as it is in my power," he promised...
...anxious to avoid such a fate, the third suspect meekly surrendered-to New York Daily News Photographer Gary Kagan (who knew the suspect's family...