Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns barked a 17-gun salute. From a jeep the 52-year-old general stood stiffly and watched the display, a hint of tears in his eyes. Overhead, in a brilliant, cloudless sky, 60 Thunderbolt fighters formed a gigantic C-L-A-Y as they roared past, and then, joined by whooshing F80 jet fighters, they swept low over the grandstand for the final salute...
Perfectly Innocent Thing? That the activities of the Communists since 1945 were not perfectly innocent was what the Government had been trying to prove for the past 16 weeks. They had called a total of eleven witnesses-ex-Communists and undercover agents for the FBI-most of them once trusted and responsible members of the U.S. Communist Party. Their testimony touched on Red activities in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maryland, Wisconsin, New York, Missouri and Ohio...
...Last Trees. "Even the ruins of Berlin," TIME Correspondent Dave Richardson cabled this week, "are marked by the East-West conflict of the past eleven months. In past springs, stately chestnut and linden trees had spread a canopy of pink and white over the ruins. This year, street after street in Berlin is bare of trees. In the long hard winter of the blockade, Berlin's people had to decide whether to accept Soviet Russia's offer of coal or cut down their trees. They chose to give up the trees. At first it was only one tree...
...days, more than 800,000 mourners had filed into Turin's rococo Palazzo Madama, past coffins that held the remains of Italy's greatest team. Sobbed nine-year-old Luigi Foschi: "The champions are dead. What shall...
Almost all crews now employ this technique with minor variations. Even Yale, which for the past two years has been rowing at fantastic beats, sometimes going as high as 45, has now changed its strategy in favor of the lower stroke...