Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hubert Beuve-Méry, neutralist publisher of Le Monde, and the royalist pretender, the Comte de Paris, Prince Napoleon and Brigitte Bardot, cloistered Carmelite nuns and a nameless million voters who had previously backed the Communists, was an intense desire to be rid of the ungoverned and ungovernable past. It was a vote against twelve years of muddle, against 25 governments that had fallen one by one, against the "system" that De Gaulle once called the "trade union of place holders." It was, above all, a vote of confidence in Charles de Gaulle himself-for the soldier...
...designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy Marshal Petain's remark that Generalissimo Franco's "is the cleanest sword in Europe." Only the Syndicalist paper Pueblo avoided sycophantic assent. Wrote Pueblo sharply: "We believe that rhetoric is indissolubly united to the decadence of Spain over the past centuries...
When a mysterious couple rented huge Stella Maris estate in Buenos Aires' residential town of General Pacheco, the villagers were naturally curious, buzzed about who the strangers were, where they came from, what they were doing. No one could find out. Not even delivery boys got past the front gate. What went on inside the two houses, the annex, in the fine garden, the orchard, swimming pool and volleyball field? The windows were curtained; a seemingly endless stream of strangers went to and fro; and they ate enough food for a platoon. Townfolk talked about smugglers, maybe even revolutionaries...
...their past two encounters with the Varsity eleven, the Engineers have been unable to break into the scoring column. In the fall of 1928 a powerful team swept over the men from Bethlehem, Pa., 39-0. Five years later Lehigh was again shut out in a 27-0 rout, and since then the two schools have not met to test their strength on the field...
Myles Mace, who returned to Harvard this fall as professor of Business Administration, has done just that for the past three years, as a director, vice-president, and chairman of the Management Committee of Litton Industries in Beverly Hills, California...