Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irate audience suspected that the same fate was in store for two more, jealously guarded by the property man. The three bananas had been contributed by a drama lover of Great Yarmouth, who had made his three children give up their precious fruit. It was doubtful whether Actress Sylva had any right to eat them. By law, only children under 18 are entitled to bananas in Britain. Miss Sylva is over...
Bound up with the election was the fate of Belgium's exiled King Leopold III. All parties wanted the monarchy, but only the Catholics, fervently keynoting the Belgian anthem's refrain, "Le Roi, la loi, la liberté" had campaigned to have Leopold back. Brussels thought the reluctant left-wing parties would agree to recall him-to abdicate in favor of his 15-year-old heir, Prince Baudouin...
...Today the 'little man' in Germany feels that he has fulfilled his fate. His betters told him 'to go ahead, cross the street; the green light is in your favor.' He obeyed and was run down. It didn't come as a surprise to him. Rather than surprise he feels almost a dumbfounded but quiet satisfaction...
Last week the dead man's sons, Paul and Erich Mueller, returned to Berlin from a Russian war prisoners' camp. They had learned of their sister's death and their mother's suicide, had pieced together the story of their father's fate...
...unlikely that his predecessors' fate was closing in on Beria.* The thin man with the bourgeois pince-nez was still alternate on the all-powerful Politburo, a vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, a marshal of the Soviet Union. Last fortnight he was nominated for re-election to the Supreme Soviet on a special list of handicappers' choices which also includes Candidates Stalin and Molotov. A native of Georgia like his boss, whom he once lionized in an apple-polishing history, Beria joined the C.H.E.K.A...