Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honors must go to Max Adrian, the "old, dangling" Sir Peter Teazle, and Cavada Humphrey, his young bride Lady Teazle. Adrian is a past master of timing and comic acting--a second "incomparable Max." And young as he is, he takes care to embody advanced age to the creakiest hip joint and most unyielding leg muscle, where the best make-up in the world is of no avail...
...many Americans agreed with Robertson that the U.S. exhibit was a 'hodgepodge devoid of any recognizable theme. The British exhibit, for example, contrasted the symbols of Britain's imperial past with her present progress in science and technology; the Dutch exhibit showed how a thrifty nation wrested land from the sea to become a prosperous agricultural and seafaring power; the Israel exhibit showed how a hardy breed of men created a nation in the desert after centuries of persecution; and even the boastful Russians blended exhibits of Sputnik, industrial machinery and imitative consumer goods to overplay the Soviets...
Even in Red China, where the tiny measure of freedom proffered was hastily snatched back, Mao's government has found itself obliged, according to British intelligence, to "displace" more heretical senior officials in the past six months than in the preceding 8½ years of Communist rule...
...August ("Well, why not?"). For those who call such antics undignified, the duke has only scorn: "Try to sell your dignity to a pawnbroker and see how much you get." Besides, he says with a self-satisfied smile, "the people who have been so bloody nasty in the past are now beginning to copy...
Back in Germany in 1916, Swope gathered material for a series of articles analyzing the nation's war effort that won him the first Pulitzer Prize for reporting. When he was barred from the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919, Swope grandly donned top hat and cutaway coat, brushed past deferential guards with the explanation that he was a delegate from Liberia, and came out with the hitherto unpublished League of Nations Covenant. Said he: "All I can say for publication is that I found it lying on a table in the meeting room...