Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than they talked about it. But almost without exception they were so thoroughly absorbed in immediate troubles, pleasures, hopes, angers and disappointments-and perhaps so essentially far-gone in the basic kind of hope which holds human beings upright-that they were virtually incapable of even trying to take fate into their own hands...
...daily diet as well as the industrial prosperity of almost all of Europe may depend on the recommendations contained in Elliott's report. The fate of UNRRA of our financial policy to Britain, and of our industrial rehabilitation or demobilization of Germany may all lie between its leather covers...
Somewhat less elated and carefree were the men who held the fate of nearly a fifth of mankind in their hands. On the eve of the national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China...
Action in the Plaza. Before the magnificent grey stone mansion that is Buenos Aires' Military Club, a throng of some 50,000 anxious citizens filled fashionable Plaza San Martin. Inside, the fate of the nation was being resolved by the military and a few civilians. Hopefully, the crowd outside applauded when such moderates as ex-Foreign Minister General Orlando Peluffo and Navy Minister Hector Vernengo Lima marched...
...really a psychologist named William Moulton Marston, famed as inventor of the "lie detector." Harvardman Marston (A.B., LL.B., Ph.D.) has a theory that in the next hundred years the U.S. will drift toward an Amazonian matriarchy. He invented Wonder Woman to educate his fellow men to their fate. Says he: "Men actually submit to women now, they do it on the sly with a sheepish grin because they're ashamed of being ruled by weaklings. Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they'll be proud to become her willing slaves...