Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire eastern front, ablaze in various degrees from beleaguered Königsberg to southernmost Silesia, no single battle was more important than this. On its outcome might hang the immediate fate of Berlin-perhaps ultimately of Germany itself. Minefields, German armor, and heavy snows so thick that correspondents said they felt, rather than saw, the movement of endless hordes of Russian men and armor, could check but could not permanently halt the hate-filled Russian juggernaut (apparently neither could an unseasonable thaw). The Germans, too, felt the Russian fury as tons of shells bored holes in the grey, low-hanging...
...like beef day at an Injun agency." A bad man was a curly wolf, a bandido, cat-eyed, or just a plain killer. Sometimes a curly wolf could stay on the dodge, among the willows, or lookin' over his shoulder for quite a spell. But once caught, his fate was sealed. With a rope around his neck he was hung up to dry, or exalted...
...them there, was tht only legislation in sight. It was a little bedraggled by the time, last week, the House Military Affairs Committee hung it with its last amendment and finally reported it out. Now on the floor of the House, even this mild, makeshift measure faced an uncertain fate...
...Crimes Commission. Alleged reason: no money had been appropriated for his work. He also suspected another reason: the State Department did not back his view that Hitler & Co. could legally be tried for crimes committed against their own people (including Jews). The State Department denied this charge, but the fate of the Commission, was in doubt because Sir Cecil Hurst, British Commissioner, had already resigned after a similar disagreement with his Government...
Both British and Greek soldiers in Athens have been perplexed by the fact that Americans, though allies of Greece and Britain, took no part in the struggle against ELAS. But last week two young U.S. Army doctors helped solve the most serious problem left unsolved by the truce -the fate of some 10,000 civilian hostages captured and held by the ELAS forces...