Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, Vellucci--who once suggested Harvard Yard be made into a parking lot--has suggested that the Lampoon castle be used as a public urinal...
...past, Tsongas had encouraged U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass) to enter the race and said he had talked to Kennedy yesterday morning but did not know his plans...
...month ago, though, few people were predicting a smash. The movie's star, Kirstie Alley of TV's Cheers, was an unproven marquee draw. Its male leads, Travolta and George Segal, were long past their luster. Critics mostly dumped on the picture or ignored it. Savants figured, in fact, that it had about as much chance of being a hit as, say, a single sperm has of fertilizing...
...geography of the past is studded with walled cities. Jerusalem and Rome, to name but two from antiquity, fortified themselves against enemies without. Later, in medieval times, the citizens of London and Paris built and rebuilt ramparts to safeguard their liberties, ones that many of their rural contemporaries, burdened with the feudal status of serf, were denied. Only in the 20th century has a city had a wall rammed through its innards, circumscribing the freedom of two-thirds of its people, forcing upon them a serf-like tie to the land. Only in Berlin...
...fire as he tried to scale the Wall and, in plain view of Western policemen and reporters, was left lying for an hour while he bled to death; finally East German border guards retrieved his body. Fechter was one of an estimated 75 who have been killed over the past 28 years while trying to escape across the barrier...