Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the leaders of the nation have learned from the past that the economy of our nation is partially dependent on the purchasing power of the farmer, and are more concerned with national welfare than with vote-getting...
Ladies & Animals. The 20 paintings in Foujita's new show had all been done in the past eight months. The most memorable of them were snowy idealizations of naked ladies lying down and animal pictures that brought Arthur Rackham and the fables of La Fontaine to mind. He had been inspired to start both series, said Foujita, by a dream in which animals in human dress had mingled with humans in nothing...
...Pope was obviously speaking past his listeners to the Catholic judges of the Iron Curtain countries, hoping to strengthen their resistance to anti-church laws. But the Pope was heard by the rest of the world, and his words landed full force...
...Lang was let off lightly by a de-Nazifi cation court after he had protested that the Nazis had bullied him into joining the party. Last week, the part of Christ went to 37-year-old Anton Preisinger. The change had nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal of the role. Each performance lasts eight hours, during which the Christus, after carrying a heavy cross, must hang upon it for 30 minutes...
Kirkland squeaked past Calhoun in the closing seconds of the game when halfback Frank Nolan snatched an end zone pass away from two defending Elis to register the only score. The Deacons had threatened several times before, but frequent interceptions had kept the sluggish Calhoun team in the game. Nolan was Kirkland's big noise all afternoon, running, passing, receiving, and backing up the line on defense...