fateful
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He is the author of “The Fateful History of Fannie Mae,” published by History Press in 2012, and "Yours Truly," published by Kensington's Citadel Press imprint, a book on how to tell life stories.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
A Time magazine cover from July 1989 had an illustration of Mr. Hazelwood with the headline: Fateful Voyage.
From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2022
Twisted Pair will be Breen’s fifth feature film, following 2016’s Pass Thru and his breakout 2013 film Fateful Findings.
From Slate • Jul. 26, 2018
The tournament, which was to have been the crowning moment for Brazilian soccer, is now remembered only for “The Defeat,” or “The Fateful Final.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2014
Fateful news contained so long in that left ear!
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
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