Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living based on the telly, the frig and the car, and the glossy magazines-all these have had an effect on our political strength," said Gaitskell. Labor's response, he said, raising a donnish finger and pursing his lips for emphasis, must not be to repeat past failures-"we have to show them that we are a modern 20th century party." Elderly party leaders on the platform looked stonily out over the unmoved audience...
...exterminating black rats in England on the ground that they were foreigners smuggled into the country by Hanoverian Protestants. The 1951 Festival of Britain even set aside a section of one pavilion to commemorate oddballs. Britain's contemporary eccentrics manifest more energy than originality, but Britons in the past month have found cause for hope...
...first season had been in many ways a trial run; port installations were not yet in shape to make their full contribution to the integrated flow of trade. Gauging 1959 against past performance, most cities on the seaway were well pleased-no fewer than 5,861 ships had traversed the St. Lambert lock. Tolls will not be touched for three to five years, until complete trade patterns emerge...
...Metropolitan Opera likes to keep one or two operettas in its repertory, if only for purposes of New Year's Eve entertainment. In the past, Manager Rudolf Bing has done well with Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Offenbach's La Péri-chole. Last week the Met unveiled a dazzling production of another Strauss operetta, The Gypsy Baron. While it might please properly champagned New Year's Eve audiences, the Met's Gypsy is more than half a failure for ordinary, year-round consumption...
They Shined Up Rudolph's Nose (Johnny Horton; Columbia). Singer Horton tries to shine up a hit of Christmas past with sheer lung power. Rudolph's nose, he assures the listeners, "is shining bright/ It looks just like a star." Horton himself has rarely looked less like...