Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roar of self-righteous voices raised against the "horrors" going on in Cuba is being heard from one end to the other of the country. This outcry would have more validity if a similar outcry had reverberated for the past six years when the horrible torturing of people by the "government" of the unspeakable Batista, for no reason even rationalized, except to keep a dictator in power, was the order...
World opinion in general and that of the United States in particular, was shocked during the past two weeks when the headlines glared with the ominous news of the execution of more and more of Batista's henchmen. The understandable reaction of many, if not most American editorial columns was one of disapproval and disappointment. Indeed, I went to Havana with such an attidue, but my mind was soon changed. On the basis of what I have personally seen and heard, I have no doubt but that the executions are deserved...
...countries. In a conversation with Gustavo Olguin, Mexican movie and television executive, I learned that the Mexican people are taking great interest in our conduct toward Cuba, and that there is now a growing wave of anti-Americanism in that country as a result of the pronouncements of the past few weeks. If the United States is to retain the respect of the Spanish-speaking countries south of the Rio Grande, it must quickly develop a realistic and sensible attitude toward Cuban internal affairs.The president of the student body of Havana University lies dead after being shot down...
This renovation will also bring the squash team back into the College after a prolonged residence in the Harvard Law School, Hemenway Gymnasium being located next to the Law School dormitories. In the past, of the few spectators who could fit into the tiny Hemenway galleries nearly half were law students...
...College and repeating the following year. In the 1925 championship he competed in both the team and individual tournaments, playing an average of four matches a day. He was one of the masters of position squash, and was of such high calibre that even in 1946, when he was past his prime and badly out of practice, he was able to give coach Jack Barnaby, then one of the leading professional players in the country, a very tough match...