Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bahama Islands have long been one of the favorite playgrounds of Americans. Composed of 700 islands that are washed by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, the Bahamas have a population of only 140,000 people, 85% of them Negro. Yet for many years the islands' fate has been held firmly in the hands of a tight little group of white businessmen known as the "Bay Street Boys," after the main street of the capital of Nassau. The group's two dozen members controlled both Bahamian commerce and politics through their predominantly white United Bahamian Party. Last...
...idea is to achieve 100 per cent Bicker -- everyone who signs up for Bicker is supposed to get into a club. Last year only one Princeton man didn't make it. He seemed resigned to his fate. He had effectively rejected the system and even developed his own rational. "The clubs strike me as being an escape hatch, as being void of any kind of reality. The idea of being buddy-buddy just bothers me," he said...
...morning of Nov. 24, 1963, Ruby recalled: "The ironic part of this is I had made an illegal turn behind a bus to the parking lot. Had I gone the way I was supposed to go-straight down Main Street-I would've never met this fate, because the difference in meeting this fate was 30 seconds one way or the other...
Kafkaesque Fate. Ruby's murder trial, like his life, was a sordid circus. His principal attorney, flashy Melvin Belli, tried to convince the jury that Ruby was insane. But Belli's florid oratory and arrogant yelpings at the all-too-obvious ineptitude of Judge Joe B. Brown were not enough. The verdict was guilty; the sentence, death in the electric chair. The conviction was appealed by some of the 18 lawyers that Ruby had in the three years following his crime, and last October the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overthrew the finding on the grounds that Judge...
Apparecently be hopes, even expects, that day will come that tell of peasant and leaders battling the enemy until the leader dies, whereupon the peasants pick up the banner and fight on even more fervently. Mao accepts the first part of the story as his fate; China stagers today because be worries that the second part will not come true...