Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt Tokyo would be bombed again, because it still contained inviting, if less concentrated, targets. And the same fate was in store for other Japanese cities. As LeMay spoke, his staff and the Japs were both computing the results of the B-29s' first smash at Yokohama-in which 450 planes dropped 3,200 tons of incendiaries. The 21st Bomber Command said 6.9 sq.mi. of the great seaport city was burned out; the Japs said 60,000 homes were destroyed. Next on the B-29s' list was industrial Kobe, which caught another 3,000-ton load...
That "the fate of Europe . . . the history of the world" hung upon the fictional Sir Horatio and his little squadron will come as no surprise to Hornblower fans. The Captain and his men have long since become one of Dictator Bonaparte's thorniest problems - in three sparkling sea stories (Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, Flying Colours) later reprinted in one volume as Captain Horatio Hornblower. The Captain's creator, C. S. For ester, has made his name as a first-rate observer of contemporary British military and naval life (The General; The Ship). The Hornblower series...
...Discussion among the Allies, as they consider what to do with their inevitable victory over Japan, centers on Hirohito. In the process of liquidating Japanese militarism, must Hirohito, too, be liquidated? If so, how will the resultant political vacuum in Japan be filled? These are portentous questions, for the fate of 70,000,000 Japanese, like the fate of 70,000,000 Germans, might well be the key to the future of all the world...
...Supreme Headquarters Staff, told TIME Cor respondent Perci-ual Knauth the story of the last recorded conferences which the Supreme Command held, in a little bomb proof room deep in the earth under the Berlin Chancellery: "I Must Die Here." Said Herrgesell: "The decisive briefing which determined the fate of all of us began at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of April 22 and lasted until nearly 8 o'clock that evening. At this briefing Adolf Hitler declared that he wanted to die in Berlin. He repeated this 10 or 20 times in various phrases. He would...
Most ironic fate of all was reserved for surly, misanthropic Whistler. A painting he had coldly entitled Arrangement in Grey and Black so captivated the despised, incurably sentimental public that they retitled it Mother and made it what it is today-America's favorite picture of filial piety...