Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every month brings a calamity graver than most major battles. Millions pass into slavery between one week and the next. The fate of whole continents swings with a day's news. A fifth of the world's people are involved in actual war. No place, from the Congo to Spitsbergen, is safe. Nobody is secure...
...choosy and stingy. Meanwhile, the Office of Student Placement announced a series of twelve symposiums in which the various careers open to graduating seniors will be discussed. Fortune Magazine has indicated what the plight of such specifically-trained persons as Business School graduates may soon be. The corresponding fate of the liberally educated but, for the most part, vaguely prepared college graduate can be imagined. But the philosophy behind the workings of the Office of Student Placement--as indicated in the purely educational respect of the symposium scheme--needs some revision of that fate is to be met with...
...wraiths of several disciples, was seen wandering through a certain Fukien forest. There it met an old woman weeping beside a grave. She said: 'My husband's father was killed here by a tiger, and my husband also; and now my son has met the same fate.' Confucius asked why she didn't return to her village instead of living in so dangerous a place. The old woman wailed: 'I am a refugee from the Communists. Here there are tigers but no oppressive government...
...talking like a foreign gramophone record . . .! You will remember that in this Assembly I many times warned coalition members of Nikola Petkov's group but they did not listen. They lost their heads, and their leader lies buried. Reflect on your own actions, lest you suffer the same fate . . .!" Lulchev and associates reflected furiously. Dimitrov's budget was adopted unanimously...
...opponent by invective or ridicule. The displays of learning were soon exhausted-the delegates got tired of hearing about the ancient republics. The delegates were calm, and even when they rushed articles through, their decisions were deliberate. Nor was there much speculation by them on the awful fate that would overtake mankind if they failed...