Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police return, and Malone slowly trucks the house from the site, pulling past the Pearl Grocery Mart and onto Route 80. The police escort halts traffic as Malone's son Greg leads the caravan in an attention-grabbing red-bannered pickup. Next come the police, a Mississippi Power & Light crew and Sister Grace, who occasionally slows down to take a picture. Bringing up the rear is Otis Towner at the wheel of the pickup carrying the steps. With hazard lights blinking, the procession crawls past the local U-Haul dealership, gas stations and the post office. Impatient drivers trail behind...
Eventually, the driver maneuvers past the house. "He saw me coming," Malone snarls, as he hunches over the wheel. "These two-lane highways are mighty aggravating when I got a wide load...
...Francisco's high-rise buildings, many constructed in the past 20 years, proved to be among the safest havens. Built to strict standards adopted after the 1971 San Fernando tremor, the buildings bent rather than snapped as the quake rippled through the bedrock. Not one of them suffered major damage...
Following a stormy final session that began after lunch and lasted well past midnight, the W.P.A. voted to accept the Soviet delegation, provided that the use of psychiatry for nonmedical purposes is banned. Moreover, in a symbolic addendum, the organization agreed unconditionally to admit a new independent Soviet psychiatric union whose members are considered genuine reformers...
...grounds that it would encourage rehabilitation. He contended that the Soviets as members of the W.P.A. would be subject to greater scrutiny and influence from abroad than they would be as outcasts. Others who favored readmission, including U.S. psychiatrists Alfred Freedman and Abraham Halpern, argued that during the past few years -- especially in the months preceding the Americans' March visit -- the Soviets had satisfied the criteria established for readmission in 1983, which called simply for "amelioration" of past abuses. In the year since the last W.P.A. meeting, for instance, the Soviets have released more than a hundred "patients." In July...