Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the responsibility of carrying the weight of this campaign, to stand by and to allow our policies to be attacked with impunity by our opponents without reply would lead to inevitable defeat . . . One of the reasons the Republican Party is in trouble today is because, over the past two years particularly, we have allowed people to criticize our policies and we have not stood up and answered effectively. That is a mistake. I don't intend to make that mistake in this campaign...
When Prosecutor Chamberlain squeaked past Representative Don Hayworth in 1956, he was one of only nine U.S. Republicans to oust incumbent Democrats from House seats. He landed in Washington with bright expectations: "I was kind of steamed up about being on the team and finding out who the quarterback was." He found out all right: the only quarterback for Chuck Chamberlain was Chuck Chamberlain. "My God," he recalls, "the Welcome Wagon came out to see Mrs. Chamberlain when we had the electric meter hooked up, but nobody from the Republican high command came around to see me." From House Republican...
...burst of moral indignation, the city fathers of Paris once ordered a roundup of vagrants. The police herded together a motley crowd of itinerant peddlers, rag and iron merchants, sidewalk salesmen. Loaded down with their bundles, dragging handcarts behind them, they straggled past Montmartre, cut through the Porte de Clignancourt and onto the plain of Saint-Ouen, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks...
...above-the-battle general, Fuad Chehab, as President, it quickly broke out anew. Chehab's choice for Premier, a pro-Nasser rebel named Rashid Karami, had loaded his Cabinet with Nasserites. The precarious fifty-fifty balance of Christians and Moslems, which alone has kept Lebanon tranquil in the past, was broken again. This time it was the Christians who became the rebels...
...upset about your future. Have care for it, but not fear: Belgium is conscious of the needs of your nascent political state. Cast a backward glance at all that has been accomplished during the last 50 years. Why should the future be less generous to you than the past?" The only unanswered question: Would the future be as generous to Belgium...