Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altitude indicator at 73,000 ft., a near vacuum just below the limit of the chamber's air seals. Not in space suit, but holding an oxygen mask, he let himself into the chamber and waited for the air pumps to lower the pressure, take him "up" past the blackout stage, on beyond the sure-death line to 73,000 ft. His body, as if taken by rocket to the edge of space, expanded in the vacuumlike atmosphere...
Poland and Greece have announced that now their dockets are clear. Wrote the Frankfurter Rundschau: "For many Germans the Hitler era is a forgotten nightmare, buried in a nebulous past. But outside Germany the memories are still alive whether we like...
Even those imperial officials most anxious to break with the rigid past recognize the danger of fatally damaging the institution of royalty itself. Court ladies declare that Michiko "will always be regarded as 'the girl from outside.' " Old women giggle that the Shodas come from the Kanto Plain, the proverbial home of "high winds and nagging wives." An elderly businessman tells his friends: "Enjoy the royal wedding; it is the last one you will see in Japan...
...utilities, consolidate government or semi-government agencies, control monopolies and practices that restrict free trade. The powers are drastic, but so is the squeeze on Chile's economy. The 1959 budget of $465,600,000 is unbalanced by $242,500,000; industrial output has sagged 10% in the past three years; food production falls far short of keeping up with the annual population increase of 2½%; more than 150,000 workers are unemployed; and the cost of living, up 32½% in 1958, jumped another 3.2% in January and rose 4.6% more last month...
...Pope Sent You." During the past fortnight, his audiences have included Tibetan Lama Cohimed Rigdzin, two football teams, the children of Vatican City employees, the Italian National Blood Donors Association, Pennsylvania's "flying grandfather," Max Conrad, Mount Everest's Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Fiat Auto Co. President Vittorio Valletta, the U.S. 686th Air Force band and choir (which serenaded him), the officers and men of his own Swiss Guard, and 30 of the carabinieri and motorcycle police who escort his car around Rome...