Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impoverished milord of today needs to be just as resourceful in dealing with the hostile natives," Time & Tide continued. "A friend of mine who has spent the past couple of years in the Middle East was annoyed at the way so many Arabs carried pictures of Colonel Nasser and kept bringing them out and kissing them. He was very grateful to TIME Magazine, he said, for publishing a cover picture of Sir Anthony Eden. Now he carries that around wherever he goes and kisses it ostentatiously in return...
...week's end hapless Bill Knowland flew into San Jose for a two-day meeting with 200 campaign workers, rolled up his sleeves for a detailed rehash of past failures and a grim, fight-to-the-finish discussion aimed at reorganizing scattered elements into a new working team...
Britain communicated its plan in advance in private to the Greek and Turkish governments, but even though the men in the street did not know what Britain proposed, Cyprus was plunged into a savage round of riots. In the past, the British have generally found themselves ranged against the Greek Cypriots crying enosis -union with Greece. This time it was the Turks who started the trouble, and the British were trapped in the middle. Turkish Cypriot fought Greek Cypriot and came close to communal...
...government. In a burst of eloquence, he concluded: " 'Is not all this too much for us?' murmur those who. because they believe nothing can succeed, end up by wanting nothing to succeed . . . No, it is not too much for France, for this marvelous country that despite its past trials and the disorder of its affairs has in hand all the elements of an extraordinary renewal . . . The road is hard, but it is beautiful. The goal is difficult, but it is great. Let us go. The starting signal has been given...
...Jewish girl's thigh and that of a shickseh." He capitulates completely in his next encounter with a shickseh, marries her, fathers two sons and moves to a broad-minded suburb to live in the material bliss that is the reward of the truly assimilated. But the past will not down. A great deal of complicated, coincidental plotting brings back Dora Dienst, villainous Danny and a conspiratorial political boss for a tumultuous weekend that Hero George appears to believe can destroy his tidy life...