Word: fates
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...during 147 years of British rule. But Britain's sovereignty is set to run out under an Anglo-Chinese agreement reached in 1984. Now Hong Kong's residents, the vast majority of whom are descendants of refugees from the mainland, scrutinize the crisis in China for clues to the fate of the colony under Communist control. Declared a banner that Hong Kong students carried last week: TODAY'S CHINA IS TOMORROW'S HONG KONG...
Londoners have feared that the same fate would befall the two newest finds. The remains of the Rose were unexpectedly discovered last February after an office building was demolished on the south bank of the Thames in preparation for the erection of a new nine-story complex. The archaeological team sent to the site knew the area had been the Elizabethan theater district, but no one expected to find vestiges of the Rose, which was built in 1587. The team stumbled onto chalk foundations, sloped mortar flooring and, most astonishingly, the base of the stage 6 ft. below the ground...
...before heading off to Houghton Library to view Leon Trotsky's original papers (the Soviets seemed shocked that Harvard owned them and several times asked Goldman if the University would consider selling them to the USSR), Shalnev briefly returned to the question of Gorbachev's fate...
...brother Michael and I were stopped by police last week in Brookline, where we live. This was the second time in my 22 years of existence that I have been stopped by police. Both times were in the last four years; should I expect the fate of being stopped every other year to continue...
...what would have happened if we had matched the description? We probably would have been taken to the scene of the crime. Some person would look us over: my fate in the hands of an angry stranger. I suppose I would have been upset at being taken somewhere to pose in a lineup. I didn't have much to do that night except finish a paper, so I must admit that I wouldn't have been terribly inconvienced...