Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colleagues find Powell's strength of feeling on civil rights issues apparent but not obtrusive. At the Pentagon, he kept watch over promising black officers, and he makes a special effort to encourage young black soldiers. He informally advised Jesse Jackson during the past presidential campaign, while maintaining his loyalty to the Reagan national security team...
...past five years, efforts to improve ties between Roman Catholicism and Judaism have been disrupted by turmoil over the presence of 14 Carmelite nuns at the site of the infamous Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. The nuns maintain a convent just outside the camp's barbed-wire perimeter, in a red brick building that once housed canisters of deadly Zyklon B gas. Their mission: to pray for all the Nazis' victims, including the 6 million Jews who died in concentration camps. But the establishment of a Christian institution at a place that will forever symbolize Jewish martyrdom has stirred...
...that this one is past us, hopefully we can stop marking these silly 20-year anniversaries. Baby Boomers have reveled in these memorials to their youth, remembering the '60s as a time of watershed events and unbridled idealism...
...party leadership tendered the proposal published in its newspaper, Pravda, as its solution to the ethnic conflicts that threaten to rip apart the Soviet Union. More than 200 people have died in ethnic strife in the past 18 months, and groups in several of the 15 republics are calling for secession...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what king of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...