Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might as well own up. The cops had most of the story anyhow. Jarvis was resigned to his fate. "About ten," he repeated. Three white women, four colored women he could remember. He had ravished and choked them to death. He had been troubled, he said, with "spells...
...House, the bill's fate teetered on a narrow balance; if the bill were to be passed, the argument would have to be won. The House leaders faced up to their task with no great conviction. Only a month ago Speaker Sam Rayburn himself had stated that to keep the draftees past their year's enrollment was a breach of contract. Now he had changed his mind: he had been convinced that there was a national emergency; whether he could convince enough of his fellows remained to be seen. The Senate had beaten down attempts to make...
...Over the fate of the great European collections U.S. zoomen can only shake sad heads. In London poisonous snakes have been put to death lest they get loose during an air attack. But conditions are nowhere so bad as during the siege of Paris in 1870. Then the beasts in the splendid Jardin des Plantes were butchered for food. Lion, elephant and hippopotamus meat sold for $5 a pound, was hard to get even at that...
...Morse Code, three dots and a dash, recommended it as a signal for calling waiters, knocking on doors, blowing auto horns, bugles and train whistles. Soon that tat-tat-tat-too was heard all over Europe. He told them to call for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose opening "fate-knocks-at-the-door" motif is three short bars and one long one. Beethoven V became a peculiarly popular concert piece...
...Europeans have lately become familiar, Colonel Britton concluded: "You are asked to join a disciplined army. It is a strange army, but one to which it is an honor to belong. It is an army which the Germans fear. . . . The Germans will not drown out the knocking of fate, however loud they beat. For when they tap out the V they are merely signaling their own impending doom. We shall hurry it as much...