Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critical moment in world history, the Havana Conference proved that the Western Hemisphere, despite internal rivalries that might be exploited by foreign interests, could unite to meet an immediate danger, to ward off a future menace. Before the Conference met, each Latin-American complication, from the fate of the French Island of Martinique to Nazi activities in Uruguay, was a source of U. S. anxiety; after the Conference the prevailing belief was that the U. S. southern flank was se cured, provided means set up at the Havana Conference were implemented...
...pretty little resort town of Salzburg last week went delegations from three Balkan nations-but they didn't go there for fun. It was not yet known whether Germany or Russia (or both) was to be the master of their fate. In case it was Germany they had gone to get their German orders...
About Sept. 1 he plans to launch a new promotion drive. On it and the amount of new reader-appeal he can put into his paper will probably hang the fate of his experiment in journalism...
Still a refugee in Lisbon, the Duke himself was "very happy indeed." As to how the war was going, he observed: "It's frightfully confusing, isn't it?" The Duchess was worried about the fate of U. S. Ambassador to France Bullitt, who subsequently turned up in Spain. "I'm particularly interested," said she, "because he's got the keys to my house." The democratic Duke noted that food in Spain had been available in quantity only for those with money. "It certainly shows how terrible war is for the people of a country," said...
Their plans looked to the further possibility that under these circumstances the fate of action might be decided by command of the air. If the British could command the air locally, as they appear to have done for a time at Dunkirk, they could put the invaders in an extremely uncomfortable position. If the Germans could command it they could lend their landing parties the equivalent of artillery support before artillery was actually landed. They could also land parachute troops and others to assist in the penetrations necessary to protect beachheads. Even if the original landing operations were not themselves...