Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the violations one by one. It is uncommonly rude to speak while someone else has the floor; ruder still when those speaking are your elders; and rudest of all when the proceedings in question concern the fate of a human being...
Boston society was stongly invested in the fate of the student-gentry and their new haunt--the social clubs--as they had been with the Gold Coast. One article found in the scrapbook of a 1903 graduate, George Stillman, proclaimed in the headline, "Student Stunts at Harvard!-Tests Required of Candidates for Secret Societies." The Boston Globe often announced the Hasty Pudding Annual Dance with detailed explanations of ball gowns and the appearance of the women as well as lists of the social elite at the party...
...take the violations one by one. It is uncommonly rude to speak while someone else has the floor; ruder still when those speaking are your elders; and rudest of all when the proceedings in question concern the fate of a human being...
DeNunzio got down to business immediately, pinning his first opponent, Aaron Paterson of Lehigh, just 26 seconds into the match. In the second round, he faced Columbia's Richard Feistman, who put up an extra 20 seconds of fighting before meeting the same fate as Paterson...
Next Tuesday in Paris an extraordinary jury composed of judges and legislators will pass judgment in a case that has held France in a sickly thrall since 1987. Three former French government officials facing charges of "involuntary homicide" and criminal "inattentiveness and negligence" will learn their fate in the final scene of a 12-year drama that has spanned the depths of human tragedy and the shallows of bureaucratic torpor, with a strong supporting cast of ignorance, chauvinism and arrogance...