Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is Fate, I said to myself...
...took a hardhearted view of most soldiers who complained of "nervousness." In fact he discovered that some neuroses are perhaps desirable. "Resentment can be a militarily useful frame of mind despite its personal painfulness. Frustrate and goad a man sufficiently and he will become indifferent to his own fate and ignore his . . . abhorrence of rage and slaughter...
...oring, who had no illusions about his impending fate, was unmoved by the speech. But many of his fellow defendants -who had hoped to find refuge in their fields of public opinion, industry, finance -blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...
...Portuguese, however, looked happy enough last week as Lisbon turned out for the annual People's Fair (to aid Lisbon's numerous orphans). They rented boats on Palhava Park lake. They smeared their swarthy faces with spun sugar candy. They took pleasure in their jados ("songs of fate"), although these ditties are not always gay. Sample...
...fate was merciless to me when it threw me into this maelstrom...