Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next decade will be decided the fate of the world for many a year to come. America is now beginning to shake off her isolationism and while doing so a great man has arisen. That man is Wendell L. Willkie...
...land. To make this effort, the Red Command threw caution to the winds. The first snows of winter fell. But the Red armies thrust and spread out without regard for enemy counterattacks. Tanks and cavalry far outdistanced the infantrymen, probably relied on captured food and fuel. At moments, the fate of the entire offensive teetered in the balance. But there was power behind the Red Army's daring; power and daring...
...Gaulle referred to the feeling among Frenchmen that France was ignored at the Moscow Conference, it melted away two days later when the Committee declared: "[We] attach too high a price to inter-Allied solidarity not to be pleased. . . . However it appears to the Committee that settlement of the fate of Germany and her allies after their defeat cannot be undertaken or successfully conducted without the participation of France...
Melitopol. Two weeks ago another force, under rotund and brilliant Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin, increased pressure on Melitopol. Himself a veteran of Stalingrad, Tolbukhin had under him many a Stalingrad veteran-tough and fire-tested. To these men, fate seemed kind, for in Melitopol there were Germans they hated most: units of the Sixth Army, destroyed at Stalingrad and now resurrected with new blood; the Seventeenth Army, responsible for atrocities in the Caucasus...
...London palmist (Thomas Mitchell) reads a lawyer's palm, informs him that he is about to commit a murder. The lawyer (Edward G. Robinson), plays into the hands of fate (with a murder...