Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area has all the markings of Long Island or the Newton-Wellesley-Concord complex suburban living. High schoolers in the area estimate that upwards of 70 per cent have smoked grass in the past year. It makes pot and enforcement a political issue...
Today the date is marked by celebrations to honor those men who dared to take a stand against the Nazis. The Germans look to it as a small bright light in a black past. Even that light is somewhat dim, however, for as any student of the period knows the attempt on the life of Hitler was motivated by the fact that he was losing the war, not by moral opposition...
...past colors so much of what happens in Ulster today that it's probably wise to begin with the past. Ulster, although it is a political part of the United Kingdom and a geographical part of Ireland, is a nation unto itself too. It has its own prejudices, traditions, and insights but these did not receive expression until 1922 when Ulster received its first government...
...last analysis, the Nixon peace offensive is likely to make less impact on students than two other developments of the past two weeks. The week before last the Senate approved almost intact the President's military appropriations bill, which commits 20 billion dollars to the development of an Anti-ballistic Missile System, a new manned bomber and a new supertank. This week, reports from Laos revealed that American airplanes have been flying close support for Laotian troops battling communist insurgents...
Down until the recent past the tenure members of the faculty did not consider themselves employees of the University doing a job for a salary. They were members of a community which assisted them in doing the work they wished...