Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many crises of the environment, plans for the $11.2 million dam went unprotested until nearly too late. In 1967, the conservationists went to work. That archchampion of the wilderness, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, led hikers through the gorge to publicize its impending fate. "The building of dams is one of the great obsessions of America," he said, "but engineering values are not what we live...
...roomie took off for vacation on his father's private airplane for Florida. The dog, it goes without saying, couldn't be expected to discontinue its existence for ten days. So, through the series of accidents we've come to know as Fate, the dog fell into my hands...
Philosophy of Bullies. Until a short time ago, the Chinese lumped together the Eastern Europeans and the Soviets as unpardonable revisionists. Now, siding wholeheartedly with the Eastern Europeans, Peking condemns the Russians for their political and economic domination of the East bloc. Bemoaning the fate of Czechoslovakia, Chinese propagandists attack the Brezhnev policy of limited sovereignty for socialist countries as "a philosophy of bullies...
...gray as he was, the call to arms had drawn him from home, and wife, and comfort as it is drawing many of all ages and fortunes now. And so he was killed in his first fight against the Boers. He had a queer presentiment of impending fate, for he had spoken a good deal to us of the chances of death, and had even selected his own epitaph, so that on the little wooden cross which stands at the foot of Bastion Hill-the hill he himself took and held-there is written: "Is it well with the child...
...found, declare the building ready for demolition. "The church is for people; it is not a society for the preservation of ancient monuments," said a recent diocesan report in Lincolnshire, where 57 rural parishes have already been declared redundant and 100 others are on the brink of that fate...