Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatly concerned about Java. I follow the fate of the innumerable children, women and men . . . who are in danger of their lives and still not liberated from the threat of the confused masses. I deeply regret the sorrows that will inevitably have been inflicted upon the population of Java before order and tranquility have been restored...
...Manchuria's ultimate fate was still far from settled. Chinese look upon Manchuria, with its Japanese-developed heavy industry and its strategic position, as the key to a strong China. The Central Government was still negotiating with the Communists for an overall settlement ; if that failed, Chungking would fight a major civil war to re-establish Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria. In the long run, the Central Government armies, especially the crack U.S.-trained divisions, looked like more than a match for the Red guerrillas...
...British and U.S. newspapers last week, he wrote: "Homo sapiens, as he has been pleased to call himself is, in his present form, played out. The stars in their courses have turned against man and he has to give place to some other animal, better adapted to the fate that closes in. This new animal may be of an entirely alien strain, or may arise as a new modification of the man species . . . but it will certainly not be human...
Naps & Breaks. The 5:50 a.m. reveille always makes the aching footballers gripe at their hard fate - mostly in corn-pone drawls (there are six Southerners on the first eleven). And from reveille on, they are never allowed to forget that football runs a poor second to the serious business of being hammered into officers and gentlemen...
...inertia." Part of mankind has long regarded this force as a prime political danger. Part of mankind has long regarded it as its great political hope. Each of these books, in its way, suggests the degree in which man's hope is congealing into man's fate...