Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time has come," Molotov had said in Paris, "when we should discuss the fate of Germany." He held not one but two fates in store for the Reich. Most of his plan presented Russia as the great and only champion of German independence. As though the Russians had never raised the cry of vengeance, Molotov preached an unvengeful peace, called for economic reconstruction, demanded a centralized democratic government rather than a federalized one (a unified Germany would be much more easily Communized). His most sensational point: the Ruhr must not be separated from Germany...
...executioner was crowding fate. For the first time in 24 tries, the chair failed to work. Convicted murderer Francis walked back to his cell to pray, and eat candy, and remember...
...first impression of anticlimax soon gave way to serious comments. Said London's News Chronicle: "Nothing could detract from the essential solemnity of the occasion-not even the vulgar high spirits that . . . painted on this instrument of fate the picture of a pinup star 'in a low-cut gown.' We cannot defy history by guffawing in her face...
When order was restored, the Assembly seated Dupont (vote 341-to-130) with only the Communists voting against him. A similar effort to unseat wartime Premier Paul Reynaud met a similar fate...
...Striving '30s. The decade after 1931 brought for artists much grimmer obstacles, more massive threats than the mere fate of not being understood. This decade made it seem that "the West" (civilization) faced a breakdown. The young strove to achieve large and general, "responsible" solutions...