Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happily, the four boaters cruised south for 125 downstream miles, beyond Candlestick Spire toward the roily confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers. There Pilot Del Rich stopped to help another boat, which was hung up on a sandbar. The rest of the Friendship Cruisers moved past and out of sight. Rich set off after them. Time and again the boaters had been warned to turn left and head upstream into the Colorado, not downstream. But Rich unthinkingly took the wrong turn and cruised on into the white water of Cataract Canyon. It was a human mistake-past the point...
...wondered why we Westerners had ever taken the trouble to draft this plan which we hoped in good faith might at least be discussed . . . [Mr. Gromyko's] reply moves me, indeed, to remark, adapting a French saying, that in discussion with the Soviet delegation, we pay for our past concessions...
Having put literature in its secondary place, Khrushchev was inclined to appear forgiving to erring authors who were willing to be tamed. At the Third Soviet Writers Congress in Moscow, which he addressed last week, three authors who had been chided in the past (including Ilya Ehrenburg) were "rehabilitated" by the writers' union. The "bearers of revisionist opinions," proclaimed Khrushchev, "have suffered a complete fiasco," and it is now time for "other Soviet writers to help those who have committed errors and recognized them to rejoin the big family of authors. The angels of reconciliation are already flying...
...past," grumbled Amsterdam's De Volkskrant, "the Dutch press was blamed-and not entirely without reason -for too long concealing the fact that there swarmed about the court people whose heads were too much in the clouds." The Dutch press could hardly be accused of concealing the facts last week. Once again, Queen Juliana's weakness for the preternatural had landed her back in the headlines: she had invited to the palace a crackpot from California who numbered among his friends men from Mars, Venus and other solar-system suburbs. Both court and Cabinet pleaded, but the Queen...
Last week in Beirut, in a marked break from past refugee attitudes, four Palestinians formed a committee to petition Arab countries to allow them to accept compensation from Israel for their lost lands, thus giving up all hope of returning. Not many years ago for any Arab to make such a proposal would have been to invite assassination...