Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make plans for a period of time when you don't know you're going to be around?" he broods aloud. "Fate is so unreliable. I have no plans...
Unreliable Fate. By 1972, when Hubert Humphrey will be 61 and Bobby Kennedy 46, one in every three U.S. voters will be under 35. That is the group that Kennedy is aiming at-and few politicians have been as skillful as the Kennedys in tailoring their images to the times. In a study...
...history and men betray him. His cart breaks down, so he rides bareback to his fate. He cannot leave himself behind; the horse "looks like an old Jew," and as he canters, ambles, trots and staggers across the black plain, Yakov can only be seen as a Jewish Quixote. It could also be said of his dream of "good fortune and a comfortable house," in the conditions of the Ukraine of that day, that nothing could be more hopelessly quixotic. He trades his Rosinante for a ferry ride and enters the holy city of Kiev. As a final renunciation...
Last week Raúl Roa, Cuba's Foreign Minister, revealed what the real trouble was: by some unexplained shift, the Cubans suddenly pretended that it was false to assume that the fate of the Americans had even been discussed. The Americans would eventually be permitted to leave, allowed Roa, but only after all the Cubans who had a "right" to leave had done...
...trading resurgence that followed. In even more recent years, the firm had been barely scraping by. Boston-based Chairman Charles Cotting, 77, closed the books sadly-but just in time. Unless new funds could have been raised in a very short time, Lee Higginson was headed for an ignoble fate: suspension from the New York Stock Exchange for lack of adequate capital...