Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time article, summing up seven years of Bolivian history in a column, pointed out that despite the "world's most comprehensive social security," Boliving standards remained quite low. The U.S. has benevolently chipped in $129 million Yankee dollars in aid during the past six years, but the same, still unidentified diplomouthpiece made a wry face, and said, "we don't have a damn thing to show for it; we're wasting money...
Crimson net-minder Harry Pratt will seek to match his fine Monday night showing against B.U., as will defensemen Dick McLaughlin and Mike Graney. Bud Higginbottom, Dick Fischer and Dave Vietze will start on the first line, seeking to end their scoring famine of the past few games...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 3--A roaring Juno II rocket was launched early this morning carrying Pioneer IV, a potential sun planet. The goal of Army scientists was to hurl a 13-pound gold-plated satellite past the moon, 221,000 miles away, in 34 hours and ultimately into a solar orbit a half million miles from earth...
Madame Duhamel also found fault with the method by which grammar has been taught in the past. She asserted, "There has been too much emphasis on the cas special, and subjects such as the order of pronouns have been taught in patches over a period of several months instead of in one concentrated lesson." Madame Duhamel, who taught French to foreign students at the Sorbonne in Paris for 12 years, felt that grammar should be over-simplified if necessary in order to get across to the student its essentially logical pattern...
...McCone touched a sensitive committee nerve almost at once by saying that "efforts during the past five years have paid off in remarkable progress. I believe we have had a good program." Snapped Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, author of a bill to spend $1 billion on advanced nuclear development by 1965: "It has failed miserably, else you might not be chairman of the commission...