Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand for God, Church and my country," he said. "When compared to the sufferings of my country, my own fate is unimportant ... I am not accusing my accusers. If, from time to time, I must cast a light upon conditions, it is only a revelation of my country's surging pain ... I pray for the world of justice and brotherly love; I pray for those who, in the words of my Master, know not what they are doing. I forgive them with all my heart...
...light. What gives her bewilderment a special quality is the firm, almost prim, dignity which she sustains even in the animal moments of Virginia's madness. She is excellent in the little scenes of rebellion-carefully preserved from the novel-with which Virginia tries to shake off her fate. And she can speak lines of questionable worth with a childish innocence that takes the curse off their calculated pathos-as when she says during a picnic with her husband: "Then I've lost another day. I don't suppose I'll ever find it." (The husband...
...final Student Council decision on the fate of the Freshman Red Book will be delayed until the end of April at least, it was learned last night...
...from London to Washington for scrutiny by the Department of State and leaders of Congress. This pact is a tentative military alliance drawn up in London by representatives of the United Kingdom, France, and the Benelux nations for mutual military action incase of an attack from the East. Its fate depends on the signature of the United States and Canada, for although the European nations plan to pool their military resources anyway, the sum total would amount to very little without definite backing from this side of the Atlantic...
There isn't any real plot. The book simply deals with the fate of the Sixth Army, intermittently following the adventures of several very different men, and occasionally breaking off into simple narrative. It begins with the nightmare existence of a soldier in one of the notorious punishment companies, a man who has lived through so many years of deaths and explosions land burying details that he scarcely knows whether he is alive himself. As the pressure of Russian attacks forces the German line closer and closer together and the regiments beat their aimless retreat across miles of snow-swept...