Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promised, Ruth didn't take up much of Eddie's time. She was all set to stab him with a paring knife, but he got past her and plunked himself down in an armchair. "I have a surprise for you," she said. She fumbled in the closet for the loaded rifle and waved it in his face. "For two years," she said, "you've been bothering me and now you're going...
...dusk on the eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Archbishop Josef Beran walked past Tommy gun-toting plainclothesmen, passed through the gates of his magnificent baroque palace on Prague's Hradcany Square, and stepped into his black, eight-cylindered Tatra. While Communist police continued their four-day search of the archbishop's palace, he sped off to the ancient monastery of Strahov, where about 3,000 of the faithful awaited...
...supporters with long-distance statements: "Black-marketeering, profiteering, corruption, favoritism and nepotism stalk the land. There is resort to police terrorism on the slightest pretext. The Congress' name today is mud." Congress was split by petty quarrels, weakened by a 10% rise in food prices during the past year, and harassed by a Communist gang-up with Bose...
...heat wave caught Canadian politicians in the final round of the general election campaign that ends June 27, but the weather did not stop them. They just peeled off their coats and went on with the job. In the past eight weeks Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Tory Leader George Drew had crisscrossed the Dominion in an appeal for votes. Despite all their oratory, the country's political temperature had stayed close to normal. It apparently would remain that way until election...
Every time it rained in Rio in the past few months, deep puddles spread over the streets that crisscross the Praia do Flamengo along Guanabara Bay. City engineers wondered what had happened to the huge sewers beneath the Praia. Last week they found out. A handful of Rio's hopeless poor had blocked the street drains with boards and sheet metal, moved into the sewers and set up housekeeping...