Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot down by Japs. He's been "missing in action" since a year ago last Jan. 2. Let those four self-righteous souls sit at home night after night with a son missing as ours has been missing, knowing not what might have been his gruesome fate, before they condemn us who would outlaw every Jap, no matter what his nativity...
...dismal old Loire chateau on June 13, the Ministers and the generals assembled to deliberate the fate of France. Reynaud presided, flanked by Pétain and Weygand. The rest gathered around the long table, with young General de Gaulle inconspicuously seated near the lower end. They had a distinguished visitor. Winston Churchill...
...centuries Europe's almost continu ously warring countries have looted each other's art, or callously shattered what they did not loot, leaving the fragments to antiquarians and U.S. tourists. Last week the current concern with the fate of Euro pean art treasures...
...Americans incongruously away from home. ... It seemed terribly dramatic that we should be there at all amid that darkening beauty so far away and so foreign and so old. It was ... a moment of overpowering beauty, of the surge of a marching world, of the relentlessness of our own fate. It made you want...
...those who knew Wainwright knew that he would accept his fate with the stoicism of a professional soldier. Though he might look back on the events which had landed him behind barbed Wire with bitterness, he could look back on the life of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright without shame...