Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic Congressman Otto Ernest Passman, wholesaler of restaurant equipment from Monroe, La., let his temper shoot up past the broiling point a while before dinner one day last week. The "wasters and spenders," he charged broadly, had leaked to reporters the news that his subcommittee was cutting even worse than usual upon this year's Administration proposals for foreign...
...American Heritage, Rene Kuhn Bryant records Sibley's labors. His first volume, a record of "strange experience in childhood, brave struggles to obtain an education, of virtue and heroism under temptations of wealth and worldly honor," appeared in 1873, his second in 1881. Ailing and past 70, he draped himself in a shawl, wore three pairs of spectacles at once to help his dimming eyesight, and continued burrowing through the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1885 he published a third volume, completing the biographies through the class of 1689. He died the same year, but Librarian Sibley...
Beating to windward in a black night of rain squalls rolling up from the southeast, the vanguard of the 21st biennial Newport-to-Bermuda yacht race boiled past the finish line off St. David's Head in a swirl of windy confusion. Busy skippers forgot to flash their sail numbers in code to the race committee, and their boats slid by in the gloom, unrecognized and unrecorded. To compound the chaos, a few pessimists figured that they had failed to fetch the line, came about and crossed it again. Not until they had suffered through an hours-long session...
...bush-league track in Lemon, S. Dak. Just three years later the wiry little jock won his first race on a major track, and he went right on to boot home 300 more winners before that racing season ran out-the first of the modern riders to break past the 300 winners mark...
...predictions through 1959: the gross national product will rise $50 billion to $470 billion by the end of 1959, while production will jump 20 points from 128 last quarter to 148 on FRB's index. Both will be new records, "with a wider margin in G.N.P. over past peaks owing to great and steady expansion in services, which have not declined in the recession...