Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe in cheap tires and more of them," he said, "and the only way to get that is to use the tires that are made by nature, whether it be rubber, or guayule, or cryptostegia." These words cast a momentous shadow of the possible future struggles over the fate of war-born U.S. industries...
...third great offensive gamble in Russia failed last July, he pinned his hope to the Wehrmacht's line of July 5 (see map). But the Red Army counterattacked and one after another Orel, Belgorod and Kharkov toppled. Each loss set in motion the wheels of military necessity and fate. Kharkov's fall necessitated the retreat from the southern bulge. That in turn imperiled the German foothold on the Caucasus. The fall of Orel doomed Bryansk...
Italy's fate could not be determined by a simple choice between "Democracy" and "Fascism." Many an Italian realized that, like German Naziism (see p. 25), Italian Fascism sprang from the national body, and that the nation would have to make full retribution. In the first days after the Duce's downfall Milan's Sette Giorni said...
...Girdler, Republic Steel's $176,000-a-year Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Board of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, has come to be almost symbolic in steel, the industry he got into because he was homesick. As such, he has come to share the fate of most symbols-sworn by and sworn at. But Tom Girdler's autobiography, told with professional Saturday Evening Post briskness, is more than the story of steel-more than another Horatio Alger success story. Certain to give laborites the fits, the book is also a belligerently forthright portrait of a notoriously belligerent...
...play. Her acting as an innocent ingenue bears out the angelic descriptions of her earlier in the play. And when she sings the song her mother taught her before the death scene, the slight, hoarse voice carries a sheer emotionalism that cries out against the injustice of her fate...