Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple. Yamashita's spirited defense had suddenly emphasized the lack of precedent for war crimes trials, the vagueness of the charges-violation of the rules of war. The commission had other problems. What was Yamashita-a consummate liar or a victim of circumstance? What was to be his fate? The rope or the firing squad? Prison? Freedom? Manila waited for the answer...
...were puzzled by their fate. Beyond the unhappy realization of having been on the losing side of a war, they could not quite grasp the meaning of the court's quiet, determined fairness, or of the hard working prosecution's meticulous attention to detail. The Nazis had never done things that...
...When I seek out the sources of my thoughts," he writes in The Coming of Fate, "I find they had their beginning in fragile Chance; were born of little moments that shine for me curiously in the past. Slight the impulse that made me take this turning at the crossroads, trivial and fortuitous the meeting, and light as gossamer the thread that first knit me to my friend.... So I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. Why, today, perhaps, or next week. I may hear...
...Fate, who is also a great stylist, does not answer rhetorical questions...
...fate of the 10 per cent of regulars who are not enlisted in the naval reserve is still hazy. Mundorff did not know whether they will be sent to another institution to complete their training, or if so, to what institution...