Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were to do with this intellectual curiosity, however, accorded ill with the egalitarian, humanist principles expounded in the classrooms. Most of the professors, Bromage and many of her classmates maintain, had the assumption that their women students would meet good husbands, Harvard men perhaps--and what better fate than that? "It was unthought of that we should go out and do something--we might be bright women to have around but we were never seriously considered as competitors," Bromage adds...
...Western diplomats called the incursion. At least 80 whites and 200 blacks were brutally massacred by the invading rebels of the Congolese National Liberation Front (F.N.L.C.). The total could run higher: abandoning the city, the guerrillas took a number of Europeans hostage. At week's end their fate was unknown...
...legion tradition, there are usually about 200 deserters at large at any time. As a commander once declaimed: "You legionnaires are soldiers in order to die and I am sending you where you can die." Today, the French army is not so quick to send them to that fate. Early this year a number of commandos left the legion -in order to join the Rhodesian army...
...while ostensibly on a skiing vacation in Europe with his wife, Shadrin had a prearranged meeting with two KGB officers on the steps of a church in Vienna, then vanished. At Ewa's insistence, the U.S. repeatedly asked the Soviets for information about Shadrin's fate. Gerald Ford sent an inquiry to Leonid Brezhnev, who replied vaguely that the KGB had not kidnaped Shadrin. U.S. officials told reporters that Shadrin was probably dead or in a Soviet prison. In response to suggestions of U.S. bungling, some officials even suggested that Shadrin had been a Soviet plant, a triple...
...Arab side where Palestinian refugees and southern Lebanese villages have instead been the victims. Similarly, the same sort of defensive psychological mechanisms have enabled the courageous, homeless Palestinians and war-stricken Lebanese to withstand such perpetual agony. Just as Iraelis try to forget the danger by placing their fate in God's will, so do victimized Arabs sing and pray to Allah...