Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your June 15 article, "Spain: Nation in Trouble," you state: "Wisely spent, the $2 billion pumped into Spain [by the U.S.] during the past eight years might have gone far toward putting the country on its feet. But bureaucrats went on an ill-conceived spending spree...
...years ago, Lawyer Joseph, 29, would have had scant prospects of winning his case. But in Illinois, as in most other states of the U.S., the past few years have seen a striking trend in favor of the plaintiff in damage suits, with ever bigger awards and ever broader liability. Such charitable institutions as churches have been held liable to the extent of having to pay damages out of their previously sacrosanct trust funds. The trend has even shaken the old common-law principle that a government entity is immune from damage claims as long as it stays within...
Nehru's visit left the Communists still in the saddle and their opponents, including his own Congress Party, high and dry. As has happened so often in the past, from Korea to Hungary, from the councils of the United Nations to his temporizing about Tibet, Nehru's indecisive efforts at compromise and peacemaking left his supporters disappointed and dissatisfied...
...went the imperial message to Paris-"Great battle, great victory!"-though it had been such a blood bath that a Swiss traveler, Henri Dunant, shocked by the lack of medical facilities, hastily set up the beginnings of what became the International Red Cross. Like most European reminders of past alliances, this 19th century campaign had its awkward details (Napoleon III had then grabbed Nice and Savoy for himself), but De Gaulle was happy to invoke the memories of Magenta and Solferino as he landed in his sleek Caravelle jet plane at Milan's Malpensa Airport...
...past, the Harvard Summer School will play host to a group of outstanding young professional leaders from many countries of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. They will attend The International Seminar, which is under the direaction of Henry A. Kissinger, associate professor of Government, and Associate Director of the Center for International Studies...