Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru's own waverings and hesitations these past weeks, his most determined opponents have been the Indian press and Indian students. The first he has called "excitable," and the second, "vulgar." But even the press last week was offering some comfort to Nehru. A volume titled A Study of Nehru, published by the Times of India, is a birthday compilation of 62 opinions-mostly laudatory-by such authorities as President Tito of Yugoslavia, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell and Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg...
...spellbinder, President Sukarno, opened the session with an oration proclaiming that Asians should reject everything from the West except its money. Asian as well as non-Asian delegates found Sukarno's program dated tiresome and useless. "The time has come for us to think less of the colonial past and more of what tasks in fact lie ahead of us," said Ceylon's Finance Minister Stanley de Zoysa, to the biggest applause of the session...
...prompted 153 officers to commit suicide rather than face courts-martial. Some, said Um, had actually taken their lives "while being questioned." The chief of staff disputed the suicide figures, but his own statistics of accomplishment were stern enough. For grafting on the job, he had fired, in the past nine months, six major generals, nine brigadiers and 1,683 other officers of field and company grade, including 61 colonels...
...Hoisting a friendly pint of stout with his opponents after the game ("Something we unfortunately don't have in American football"), Dawkins had no illusions that he had yet nailed down a berth on the Oxford team that will play Cambridge. Said he modestly: "I am just getting past the stage where I'm getting used to the rules...
...Coaching at the University of Maine in 1950, Dave Nelson conceived the winged T, which stations a halfback outside an end for added power and trickery, but uses the traditional two-on-one line blocking of the single wing. Nelson perfected the system at Delaware during the past eight seasons, produced a brand of pounding possession football (his favorite slogan: "Beloved are the bastards that grind it out"), and Delaware has won 53, lost 20, tied...