Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried in the last decade, one which required courage and good taste for its very genesis. Sidney Howard and Will Irwin have adapted a 550-yard-old Chinese classic into what earns the appelation of a charming and artistically superb love story. As far as the play's financial fate is concerned, however, the reactions of large but indifferent Boston audiences may well point to an early demise...
Before V-J day, 4,000 men had gathered mysteriously at Tokyo Bay's naval base of Yokosuka. Their working garb was strange, their training secret, their mission vitally important, their fate certain death. These were the first of the fukuryus (crouching dragons), underwater attack units wearing special diving suits and armed with explosive charges. Upon them the Naval Ministry had pinned its hopes of repelling an American invasion of the home islands...
When the trial recessed for Christmas, there were few in the courtroom who doubted Meyer's fate. He had an ally in his wife, who sat listening tensely as her husband's life hung in the balance. To newsmen she said: "He is a good family...
Noncommittally, with the air of a man who knows he cannot compete with fate, the prosecutor wrote out a complaint of nonsupport...
...Bomb was itself a question. It was little to his credit that it stirred man's ultimate despair more than all the rest of his calamitous handiwork because it seemed to transfer responsibility for his fate from God to man. Presumptuous man, who in all his pryings into matter below vision and into space beyond sight had never been able to answer the first question which the Voice from the Whirlwind put to Job: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth...