Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excitement mounted in Rio. Though Getulio was not expected to arrive till early this week, bandwagon-jumping politicos staged one banquet of homage after another. Cardinal Dom Jaime Camara announced a special Mass commemorating Vargas' election, although the church press had backed the Brigadeiro during the campaign. The staid Jockey Club said it would revive its annual "Prix Getulio Vargas," which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. At week's end a new samba was sweeping to the top of the pre-Carnival popularity list...
...days later, from morning till night, the retreating U.N. forces rolled back down the two main roads through Seoul-down the same roads on which outnumbered South Korean troops and a handful of U.S. advisers had fled six months before...
Camptown split into two groups, the conservatives who set their alarms for 6:50 and had a good breakfast before they set out to catch the 8:04 commuter train, and the mad-dashers who lolled till after 7. But by the time they reached the station, dressed in the standard uniform of gabardine topcoat and mouse-grey hat, they were pretty indistinguishable. For these were young men planning to get ahead in the world, ex-G.I.s to a man, whose stay at Camptown, they assured one another, was "only temporary...
...authorities to get around the right of amparo is to carry out a sabadazo, a surprise arrest after Saturday noon, when all government offices, including the courts, are closed. But all arrests cannot wait till a weekend, and besides, sabadazos are considered unsportsmanlike. This week the Mexican Senate was putting the final touches on a bill, sponsored by President Miguel Alemán, to take some of the obvious kinks out of the amparo system...
...back as 1928. Although the land had been purchased, the depression, war, and other financial difficulties delayed the groundbreaking. Donations kept coming in, however, and last spring, the old apartment house building was torn down to make way for its successor. Services had been held in this building up till then. During the interlude, architectural plans were considered. Originally, members of the resident planning committee had wanted a traditional New England colonial church, but M.I.T. Lutherans persuaded them to adopt a less conventional building with modern lines...