Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed east across town, past the filthy, begrimed tenement brownstones where families loiter on the front stoops in the evening warmth, through the smelly, crowded section east of Park Avenue and over to East End Avenue. East River Drive was deserted. But near by, lolling against a slum tenement, were 25 boys and about ten girls, mostly Italian...
Moments later, some 30 Russian seamen scrambled up from the beach. Fanning out over the moor, calling Teayn's name, they beat their way through the furze and heather. While they continued their man hunt up to and past Fraser's house, the crofter coolly phoned the police, set a warm meal before the exhausted man. The Russians did not abandon their search until 2 in the morning, and as they pushed off from shore emptyhanded, the blue, green and white curtain of the aurora borealis shimmered above them...
...further conciliatory gesture, Sir Hugh Foot had written a letter to the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, offering to let him return to the island once violence ceased. Climbing down slightly from past positions, Makarios no longer rejected a "transitory stage of self-government." But he was not likely to be made happier by the amazing gaffe committed last week by the Archbishop of Canterbury on a TV broadcast. Explaining why he had invited Makarios to attend the forthcoming Lambeth Conference of bishops in London, the Archbishop of Canterbury said, "By tradition he is one of the officials invited...
...Father Pius XII in this hour of trial to our faith that has sent a shudder through the hearts of Peru's Catholics. We will pray for our church, for the sanctity of matrimony." Five thousand women-many from Lima's top society-heeded the call, parading past the presidential palace and the cathedral and chanting hymns...
Delegates heard reports that Adventist membership at the present is 1,102,910, having doubled in the past ten years (up from 75,000 at the beginning of the century). Proportionately, the Adventists also make the biggest financial contributions to their church-more than $225 million in the past four years. To the Cleveland conference, delegates brought $1,260,500 in cash and checks for missionary work, used a Brink's truck with gun-toting guards to haul it off safely...