Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position was the weakest of the "big five" weekend papers.* Sir Stafford Cripps, co-founder of Tribune in 1937, had long since stopped backing it. It had dipped into the red, and barely held its 18,000 circulation. The next six months might settle Tribune's fate...
...bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death could touch him in one way only. Upon realizing the imminence of defeat at Waterloo, he deliberately put himself in the way of bullets, hoping to defy fate...
Despite the formidable volume of prediction concerning the fate of the Third Party, it is impossible to make even an intelligent guess as to the size of the actual vote for Wallace in November. That vote is contingent not only upon the identity of the Republican candidate but upon any changes that may occur in the economic condition of the country between now and election time...
...build a cathedral. It then shows how Dudley persuades both the bishop and an unpleasant donor that the money could be more wisely used if it were spent to help the poor and the suffering. It then shows how Dudley saves the bishop's marriage from a sorry fate. And all the time, it maintains a nice comical relationship between Dudley, the bishop, and the bishop's wife...
...dinner. For the traditional Christmas eggnog, the William Whites, in Rio de Janeiro, are substituting mint juleps. Our Bogotá correspondent, Jerry Hannifin, says he is going to spend the day alligator hunting. In Mexico City, Bureau Chief John Stanton had no worries beyond a slight apprehension over the fate of his children's toys (their Mexican playmates won't get theirs until Jan. 6, the Day of the Three Kings...