Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
Harvard will not press criminal charges against the eight Tech students who plotted to blow the letters "M-I-T" out of the Stadium turf during the Yale game. As a result, the fate of the culprits rests solely in the hands of an MIT faculty committee that will probably announce its decision today...
What could the U.S. do? Washington was publicly silent. Senator Styles Bridges, chairman of the congressional "watchdog" committee on foreign aid, demanded a special session of Congress. But that idea was promptly labelled absurd. The fate of prostrate China now seemed only a matter of days...
...merely a label applied by conquerors to the conquered. This was echoed by Manhattan's Daily News, which warned U.S. military leaders that they were already being labeled "aggressors" by Russia and that they had better win the next war if they wanted to avoid Tojo's fate...
...million men surged around Suchow in the greatest battle in China's history. A Communist victory would open the way to Nanking and probably seal the fate of the reeling Nationalist regime. A government victory might buy enough time for Chiang's harried forces to recover from their recent string of shattering defeats-and for effective aid to arrive from the West...