Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this season. It is hard to understand, however, why he chose an open letter to four publications to castigate to coach who has done his best. It is hard to understand how Fish could have changed from the helping alumnus he seemed in 1948 to the jealous guardian of past Harvard glory that he now claims...
Foaming 20-ft. waves burst over the rafts, and the chafing salt burns grew so bad that the airmen soon had to cut their heavy G.I. shoes away. Rain squalls swept past in raw, chilling gusts. Huddled painfully together, their knees jammed under their chins, the men in the rafts rode out the first night and second day. Now & then they heard search planes passing in one of the greatest air-rescue operations in peacetime history, but the aircraft were hampered by a lowering ceiling and the rafts were not sighted. It was not until after dusk of the second...
...past four years, poor, typhoon-swept Okinawa has dangled at what bitter Army men call "the logistical end of the line," and some of its commanders have been lax and inefficient. More than 15,000 U.S. troops, whose morale and discipline have probably been worse than that of any U.S. force in the world, have policed 600,000 natives who live in hopeless poverty. When a typhoon (dubbed "Gloria" by meteorologists) swept the island last summer and caused widespread damage, the Army finally investigated the situation. The island's command was shaken up. Major General William W. Eagles, commander...
Last week Wladyslaw Gomulka, once the country's No. 1 Communist but for some time past under suspicion of being a Titoist, was expelled from the Communist Party Central Committee. Vice Minister of Justice Zenon Kliszko and Minister of Construction Spychalski were also kicked out. All were denounced as "masked enemies, provocateurs, saboteurs and traitors"-a few of the epithets currently applied to Titoists by true-blue Stalinists. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, new Soviet proconsul for Poland (TIME, Nov. 21), was elected to the purified Central Committee...
Professor Arthur H. Cole, librarian of the Business School, upon receiving the gift, said, "Here is the labor-management relations of the past 20 years compressed into one beautiful case history...