Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poems in the book confirm the popularized notions of Islamic fatalism. "The fates have ways unaltering, and men's aims are beyond their impotent reach," writes Gibran. Mikhail Nuaymah declares: "Fate is my ally and destiny my travelling mate." Shukri takes resignation furthest: "Life is but a continual dying/Goodness and pleasures are but borrowed...
They console themselves with an opium we call fate...
...tire of reading about all the time being expended to save convicted killers from their deserved fate. If you must talk about appeal, then say something about the impossibility of appeal by the victims lying in their graves...
...guess you could say, then, that the team deserves its fate, but that doesn't mean anything to those of us who have gone to games, and besides, a lot of the fault lies outside the city...
Lastly, the Orioles suffer the fate of sharing a football-minded town with the Colts. The two teams both arrived in the city in the early 50s, but the gridders were the first to enjoy success. By 1958, Johnny Unitas had taken them to the top and made them the victors of The Greatest Game Ever Played, and Baltimore was famous for its rabid football fans...