Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Racing against two excellent BC runners in the 3000, Kent carried Harvard's fate on his shoulders. And when he came through the last banked turn--arms pumping, having shattered his competition with a huge final kick--the thinclads were still alive...
...Engineers also seemed to have fate on their side--Harvard had captured the tournament only on the even-numbered years since it began...
...colleagues were chosen for the camp's special detail, spared the gas chamber but forced instead to prepare its victims, by shaving their heads. Day after day, he remembers, he and several others cut the hair of thousands of women, moments before their extermination, unaware of their fate...
...fate is on Harvard's side, so is a powerful squad...
...thieves will not be able to ransom the pictures to an insurance company, the frequent fate of stolen art treasures, because the Marmottan could not afford the enormous insurance premiums on its permanent collection. Police doubt that the intention is to sell the purloined paintings to a collector, because their fame makes them, as a French journalist put it, "about as negotiable as the Eiffel Tower." One possibility is that the robbers are terrorists who hope to exchange the pictures for a captured colleague. Said Police Superintendent Thierry Boulogne, who is involved in the case: "No one hypothesis is being...