Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China last week that seemed unaffected by the tragedy of China's fall. The streets were crowded with shiny Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces. The city's overflowing stores were guarded by armed Sikh policemen with greying beards, the last scattered sentinels of the West's past day in Asia. In Hong Kong hotels, Britons still dressed for dinner...
...simply, in an adobe hut during the summer and during the winter in caves, which they kept changing regularly for fear of assassins. For many years, Mao's official vehicle was an ambulance donated by the American Chinese Hand Laundry Association. In the early mornings, U.S. visitors driving past Mao's residence would see him and General Chu Teh, like any Chinese peasants, in the road with baskets and small shovels, picking up animal droppings to fertilize the fields. Said Mao in a lecture to Communist writers: "Once I felt that only the intellectuals were clean, and that...
...implications. Correspondent James Reston wrote to his own New York Times the morning after that "we were wrong, not only on the election, but, what's worse, on the whole political direction of our time." Richard Lee Strout of the Christian Science Monitor's Washington staff commented that in past New Deal elections there was generally divided judgement over the result. "This time we missed the boat altogether. It is not a healthy sign in a democracy for such a gap to exist between the press and the masses...
...last year he has been fishing off the coast of Maine, and Peroy didn't know whether he would be back or not. Gay is registering in the Spring Term, though, and for the past few weeks has been practicing in the Blockhouse...
Fencing coach Rene Peroy has heard some good news and some bad news in the past two weeks...