Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...History of the New World: "Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth." Sir Walter did not get his teeth kicked out-he got his head chopped off; and while Schlesinger need hardly fear a similar fate, he has come to realize that the writing of history can be a bruising affair...
Smith, a native of Chester, W. Va., and McClure, a Negro from Chattanooga, were members of the same Special Forces detachment. They were captured when their camp 35 miles northeast of Saigon was overrun. They testified to knowing nothing about the fate of fellow prisoners who had been captured in the same action. Yet there was a press report from Washington quoting one of the prisoners-a Special Forces sergeant now in Germany-as saying that Smith had helped him escape from a cave in which they were both imprisoned, heroically sacrificing his own chance for freedom. And the parents...
Careful Timing. Then, on Palm Sunday, Jesus made his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, went to the temple, drove out the money-changers, denounced the religious leaders. This alarmed the priesthood, and sealed his fate. The high priest Caiaphas had already said to the Sanhedrin: "It is in your interest that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation perish...
...fate of the Diem government shows how little it merited even that limited aid, Gruening said...
This term's major effort has been an attempt to persuade the Administrative Board to allow accused students a personal appearance at disciplinary hearings. The fate of the idea remains in doubt, but the mere broaching of it has initiated a useful round of self-questioning among the senior tutors and deans...