Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual glib and grinning way, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev confounded Western newsmen at a British embassy celebration of the Queen's birthday by taking up rumors about his past purge victims, and talking about what might have happened to Politburocrat Mikhail Suslov, who, Polish Communists believe, is Khrushchev's No. 1 opponent in Kremlin councils...
Europe's basically mild industrial recession has piled 8,500,000 tons of cheaper, small industrial coal at British pitheads over the past 15 months. This coal is too fine for householders' grates, but the British National Coal Board thinks that it can now boost output of domestic coal high enough to meet the expected demand. The British also believe that the industrial coal recession is temporary, and that Europe's "energy gap" will, in the long run. assure plenty of furnaces for Britain's coal...
Since his Liberal Democrats had won the election so handily. Kishi was automatically the man for the Diet to name as Premier. But, having won, Kishi wanted to do things a bit differently from the past, when minority parties got a share of key Diet posts. With some justification, he accused the Socialists of using important committee chairmanships to sabotage legislation (they often did not show up for work, as a way of delaying action). Kishi, bent on responsible government under his own control, demanded that all 16 committee chairmen of the House of Representatives, and the Speaker...
...treason charges dropped against two Communist Deputies who had been in jail a year awaiting trial. His bland explanation: both men had said they were sorry they had done wrong and had promised not to commit treason again. With U Nu's victory assured, the tension of the past weeks abruptly vanished in a flood of Burmese euphoria...
...have differed in the past, e.g., Reston was generally a defender of onetime Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Krock a critic. But Krock thought so highly of his younger colleague in 1953 that he moved aside as the Times's Washington bureau chief so that Reston could have the job, thereby thwarted the Washington Post and Times Herald's hopes of landing Scotty as editor. Their recent differences seem more pointed and more specific. Though Krock never mentions Reston by name in his critiques, there can be no doubt of his target. Items: ¶ Last week Reston cited...