Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Past midnight, the bright white light atop the Capitol dome still shone over Washington, signaling that Congress was still in session. On the Senate floor, after six months of stalling, wrangling and maneuvering, U.S. history's bitterest battle over confirmation of a presidential appointment marched toward the showdown...
...Nursing a violent dislike built up during his years as a member and chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Anderson, to collect anti-Strauss votes, drew on his personal popularity in the Senate, drummed up party loyalty, and cashed every IOU he had for past favors rendered fellow Democrats...
Judge Pye struck his blow in connection with the trial (for armed robbery) of a notorious Georgia felon named Harold James Meriwether. While the jury trial was in progress, both papers ran stories that dipped into Meriwether's extensive criminal past. This long-accepted U.S. newspaper practice was unacceptable to Judge Pye. He called the stories to the attention of Defense Counsel Frank Hester: "Have you read these accounts...
...four feminist years, sharp-tongued girls have speared the prize at the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. It looked that way again last week at the 32nd annual spellbinder in the ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel. The girls marched past progressively tougher words, from heroine, blossom and dentifrice to operose, miscible and quadrumanous. By the end of the first day, there were six girl contestants to five boys...
...traveling exhibition of its current work-36 tapestries by 18 of the 26 association members. On view last week at Washington's National Housing Center, the handsome exhibition (see color) makes clear the appropriateness of tapestries with modern interiors. Much as the great stone baronial halls of the past needed the warmth and texture of wool, modern interiors tend to be cold and overly machined in appearance. Today's nomads, moving from one apartment to the next, are also likely to appreciate a major wall covering that can be rolled up like a rug, transported easily from...