Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fate of the nation was plainly in the balance. Now, as in 1864, only immediate and sustained miracles of effort and speed could tip the scales in the nation's favor...
...less than 60 minutes he had to decide what to do with one of the four great bastions of the British Empire; he had to dispose of Britain's fate in the Far East. In less than an hour he had to make up his mind to do something that no sizable British Army had done since Major General Sir Charles Townshend capitulated at Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia in 1916, and, before that, since Cornwallis gave up at Yorktown in 1781. He had a matter of minutes in which to decide whether to shake Winston Churchill...
...Woodrow Wilson in 1918 was strong in the memories of all. That War President had been politically inept enough to ask directly for the election of a Democratic Congress-and had taken a shellacking that lost him the House, the Senate and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-where the fate of his League of Nations later rested...
...jumped at an opportunity to go to Bermuda on a construction job. Shocked, St. Joe's News-Press cried out a curse on submarines: "May the U-boat that struck by stealth, bringing death to more than a score of St. Joseph citizens, meet with such a fate. . . . Before the sinking of the Lady Hawkins this would have seemed a savage and un-American wish...
...half weeks the reported toll of submarine operations along the East Coast was twelve ships, some 350 lives. The day the Lady Hawkins' fate became known coast guardsmen landed at Chincoteague, Va. a handful of near-dead seamen, survivors of the torpedoed tanker Francis E. Powell. Reports that two Axis subs are operating in the Gulf of Mexico brought a complete blackout along 100 miles of Texas coast. The success of counter-measures was the Navy's own secret. Just one hint was allowed to slip through. The Navy released a terse report of one unnamed flyer: "Sighted...