Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your bets." The odds on the big boards in the infield flash with the changing whims of the crowd. Tension mounts as the hounds wait, flash, speed. The rumbling mob roars and fragments as the end approaches. The winning number lights up on the board and the favored of fate make their way to the "Collect" windows...
...their client countries as well as the older nations that profess concern that their fate should largely reside in American and Soviet hands, the non-news of the Summit should in itself be a measure of reassurance. Johnson was no more the plains-Texan wheeler-dealer than was Kosygin a shoe-banging Khrushchev. Both men demonstrated that they are able to survey, if not to solve, the overriding issues with acumen and restraint...
...erected upon the same site in 515 B.C., after the return from exile. This Temple, in turn, was destroyed by the Romans when they turned Jerusalem into a flaming holocaust and sent its inhabitants into the Diaspora. Although most Jews fled the city, a few remained to bewail the fate of God's people at the Temple site; the principal ruin ultimately became known as the Wailing Wall...
Considering its position as the world's largest producer of metal containers, American Can Co. remains understandably red-faced over its abortive 1929 attempt to set up shop in Britain. That year the company established a British subsidiary-only to meet with an unexpected fate. Joining forces to fend off the challenger, British container companies merged into what came to be known as Metal Box Co. Ltd. and enlisted the technical assistance of American Can's chief U.S. rival, Continental Can Co. The combination proved so powerful that American Can, badly beaten, sold its local operations to Metal...
...recent thriller Accident, and it seems to apply even more to his new one, Assassins, which is half mystery, half "people knowing." During a top-level international conference, the motherless 14-year-old daughter of the British Foreign Secretary is kidnaped by a would-be political assassin. Her fate is in the hands of three of her elders: the chief government security officer, her father and his secretary, who is also his mistress. The latter is a disturbing woman- passive, manipulative, all things to the weaknesses of all men-seemingly a sister of the wife in Harold Pinter...