Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week for the first time since the early days of the war, the U.S. had its first real unemployment problems; some 3,000,000 people were out of work. So far it was not an alarming figure. Unemployment was still more a small reminder of grim times of the past than an indication of hard times just around the corner...
...party, we try to go back to the 19th Century, or even to the 1920s, you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country . . . What we ought to do is to stop bellyaching about the past . . . and start making it everlastingly clear to the country where we stand...
...Stanislaw Adamski of Katowice wrote a pastoral letter in which he urged parents to "oppose by all peaceful methods all attempts to deprive your children of religious instruction." Six priests who read the letter to their congregations were imprisoned; they joined 400 Catholic priests jailed in Poland during the past three months...
...most striking new fact about Japan's farms is the just-finished land reform. Spurred by the U.S., pushed past Diet reactionaries by SCAP and often attacked as socialistic, it actually las had an individualist, conservative result...
Battery men who have been working in the Cage with him for the past week admire him for his patience and individualized instruction. "He goes from one player to another," one pitcher observes, "regardless of whether that man happens to be a star." That's the way Stuffy wants it. "The most obscure boy may be a future great," he points out. "Take Bob Feller. There were only 13 boys in his senior class at high school." If there are any Fellers at Harvard, the new coach will probably find them. He's had plenty of experience...