Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meany last week dismissed Summerfield as "a little ward heeler from Detroit." Then he made his threat: "I have always said that we do not want our own political party, but if we have to do that to lick the people who want to drag us back to the past, we will start our own political party and do a good...
...Bloody Past. Trained at Moscow's Frunze Military Academy to be a professional soldier, Serov was assigned on graduation to the NKVD. He first caught the Kremlin's approving eye in the '30s as chief Chekist in the Ukraine (where Nikita Khrushchev also served as Stalin's troubleshooter). shooting and deporting to certain death in Siberian slave camps hundreds of thousands of peasants who resisted collectivization. When World War II began, Serov, an equal in bloodstained iniquity to Nazi Germany's Himmler, specialized in genocide and in exterminating "anti-Soviet elements" in the new Soviet...
Moving West. The exact shape of Poland today (as so often in the past) is not the result of nature or of justice, but of the machinations of outsiders. In the closing months of World War II, the Russians coolly announced that they intended to keep permanently the 68,667 sq. mi. of eastern Poland, beyond the so-called Curzon line, which they had grabbed in the piping days of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As compensation, Stalin proposed to give the Poles large chunks of the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia-all in all, some...
...change will probably not affect future National Merit scholars here. "There have not been too many awards above the $1500 level in the past, and Harvard has had very few of them," said Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions and Scholarships...
...words there is always the unmistakable feeling of the past, and one can't help feeling that here is a man viewing the tumult of the last decade as a man who looks upon his own funeral; a man whose life was swept away with a dead...