Word: fates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Communists were ready to spring one strike after the other. Ramadier's fate-and France's-hung on whether he could water down the flaming disunity that had its origin in hunger...
Back in China in 1926, Chen had some idea of benefiting mankind by applying Scranton techniques to the coal fields of Shantung. Fate-and hsiao-had more exciting work for him. He again met Chiang Kaishek, now the general of Kuomintang armies driving against the warlords, and Chiang made Chen a political aide...
Justice Frankfurter was caustic: "If only the Harrises were involved, one might be brutally indifferent. ... [But] what is involved far transcends the fate of some sordid offender. . . . How can there be freedom of thought or freedom of speech or freedom of religion if the police can, without warrant, search your house and mine from garret to cellar merely because they are executing a warrant of arrest? . . . Yesterday the justifying document was an illicit ration book, tomorrow it may be some suspect piece of literature...
Much more common than the proud boys are those who, on learning of their paternity, are overwhelmed with feelings of guilt and shame which sometimes hang on for years. Such men usually agree to get married, and "accept their fate as a just punishment for the damage they have wrought...
...story and one poem rise perceptible above the level of the rest. "The Horse Lover," by Lee Ann McCaffrey, achieves suspense right up to the end in its tale of the fate of a high-spirited horse that has killed a man. Neither the style nor the Characterization is superlative, but the author's judgment preserves an overall effect that is convincing. The poem, "The Death of a Friend," by Judith Nelson, was chosen by Professors Matthiessen and Levin to be Radcliffe's entry in the Eastern College Poetry contest. It is a mature piece of expressive writing, and consequently...