Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of man is sterner (than that of women). He, with superior strength and superior courage, breasts nature in her ruggedness, and wrings from her silent bosom, with the sweat of his brow the raw material...by which the long contest with death is made possible...
Still unknown was the fate of the cult's flamboyant founder, Jim Jones, 47. A white civil rights activist and Marxist, he started building a largely black congregation in the late 1960s. A few years later, he ruled a string of communes from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Rigidly disciplined, they turned out diligent workers on election day to help Democratic candidates. In gratitude, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone appointed Jones chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1975, and many of the cultists were placed in city and county jobs...
These are difficult days for Menachem Begin. Among his harshest critics are close comrades from his days as leader of the Irgun underground, who have not only criticized his position but branded him a traitor to the Zionist cause. Begin's performance this week may well decide the fate of the proposed treaty with Egypt. If he breaks with his chief negotiators, Dayan and Weizman, over the Israeli response to the latest proposals from Washington and Cairo, he could destroy the negotiations-and bring on a crisis for his government. If, on the other hand, he can win approval...
...known that the two men would die when I left them. In so many words I told them so. Now I knew they were dead. I had felt removed from them when I talked to them. At the same time their fate scared me, my mind couldn't cope. There were too many voices, unconnected, too many trains of thought, all at once. The fact they were in such trouble eventually only made me focus more on my own. They seemed equally removed when I heard for a fact they were dead, which is odd, since I have as clear...
...amidst all this, your heart still aches because your team, Harvard hockey, has mysteriously been absent from the ECAC playoffs for the last two winters. Why must fate be so disrespectful...