Word: fates
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...never made public by the Pentagon -- and held 12 surviving Americans in prison or psychiatric clinics. He also reported that the Soviets held 716 American servicemen for varying periods during World War II and interrogated 59 American pows from the Korean War. He offered no significant information on the fate of missing servicemen from the Vietnam...
Even with the fate of the Uruguay Round still up in the air, there are already signs of creeping regionalization in its more exclusive, divisive and competitive form. France and Germany, the dominant powers on the Continent and the principal culprits in the E.C.'s agricultural protectionism, have formed a joint army corps that is clearly intended as a hedge against the day when the U.S. pulls its forces out of Europe...
...same day that Warmus learned her fate, an appellate court in Wisconsin upheld the murder conviction of a former beauty queen who is already serving a life sentence for killing her ex-boyfriend's fiance. Lori Esker, erstwhile Marathon County Dairy Princess, became wildly jealous when she discovered that her prince, a local farmer, had decided to take up permanent residence with on-again, off-again girlfriend Lisa Cihaski. Esker strangled Cihaski in September 1989, leaving her body to be found in a parked...
Turow did not encourage members of the Class of '92 to sit around and wait for fate to smile on them, however...
...Vincent van Gogh to a friend as they were gazing at Rembrandt's Jewish Bride in Amsterdam in 1885, "if I could go on sitting here in front of this painting for a fortnight, with only a crust of dry bread for food." This (more or less) describes the fate of Rembrandt's own apprentices. The Jewish Bride (circa 1665) is Rembrandt through and through; but many Rembrandts are not, for the simple reason that (contrary to romantic legends of his poverty and his rejection by the stuffy bourgeoisie of 17th century Amsterdam) he was, for most of his adult...