Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perspective of history, involvement in the affairs of 81 other nations runs counter to a profound current in the nation's past. Over most of its history, the U.S. has seen overpowering wisdom in George Washington's farewell advice to take advantage of "our detached and distant situation" and "have as little political connection as possible" with foreign nations. Right down to World War II, many a U.S. citizen still believed that the nation's "distant situation," guarded from the Old World by two mighty oceans, made isolation the best policy...
...last analysis, whether or not anything useful was achieved would depend not only on Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev. It would depend, too, on Gamal Abdel Nasser, a man who in the past has shown a blind determination to gratify his own imperialistic ambitions though the heavens fall. Unless Nasser renounced his habit of setting international forest fires in the calm assumption that someone else would put them out, no agreements achieved at any summit meeting could bring stability to the Middle East...
...still they listened: "Now King Hussein, the enemy of his people, the enemy of Arabs, the enemy of humanity, brings back the British so they can stomp on the dignity of the Arab people in Jordan as they did in the past. What kind of a King is this? What kind of blood flows in his veins? This is surely not Arab blood...
...Israel might strike for the west bank of the Jordan River to give itself a more easily defended border. A single incident last week brought sharp reminder of this ticking bomb: 66 Arab prisoners in Israel, nearly all of them terrorists captured infiltrating the country from Jordan in the past, seized guns from their prison armory, killed two guards (eleven prisoners also were killed) and escaped toward the border in the most spectacular jailbreak in Israel's history...
...past season was a dud," asks Variety, "what will the next season be like?" Answer: awful...