Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saying goodbye to "those old stiffs who marched with me yesterday and who marched with me all over France." The old stiffs marched wearily outside to their buses, rolled back to their hotels, picked up their bags, and joggled across town to Union Station. The heroes of 30 years ago climbed aboard the train for Kansas City. In no time at all, comfortable snores filled the four Pullmans...
...Fascists, was sent to Rio de Janeiro as business manager for Italy's LATI airlines. The war ended his job; after that he eked out a meager existence as a translator. Committed to a Rio charity ward, blind in one eye and partly paralyzed, he said not long ago: "I guess the only news about me that most people want to hear is my death." Last week, at 66, Get-Rich-Quick Ponzi made news for the last time...
More than a fortnight ago, the Gimo wrote Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi in Peiping of his decision to retire. The letter instructed Fu to make his own plans for North China. Last week, a typical Chinese solution ended the 40-day Communist siege of China's ancient capital...
...intelligently. For a prime recent example, consider the conservative element of the Republican Party, the diehards and the standpatters who listened to the soothsayers and the high priests of their own outworn political philosophy rather than to the people. Apparently they never learn anything, for just a few weeks ago they turned thumbs down on Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., a man who could help lead the Republican Party out of its slough of despond, and a Harvard graduate who would probably disagree with your statement "that undergraduates are exposed to too much liberal thinking within the College...
Louria and Ray formed the backbone of Jordan's first Harvard wrestling team but they finished their collegiate athletic careers two weeks ago, and without them this team cannot help but become markedly weakened...