Word: past
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Balcony. Narriman Sadek, 16, daughter of a civil servant, has been betrothed for the past five years to Zaki Hachem, 27, a Harvard-trained economic aide to the U.N. Secretariat. Narriman and Zaki had set their wedding day for Dec. 8, and a few days before, they went shopping for a ring at the Cairo store of Ahmed Nagib Pasha. Ahmed, who in his spare time helps out Farouk with new telephone numbers, told the young couple to come back next day. His Majesty hustled down to size up Ahmed's find from a concealed balcony. Narriman...
...bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures of the past into a truck to begin their long voyage home...
...that it was true. He said he celebrated finishing a new book by getting drunk, went to sleep at the curb in his car after deciding "the road seemed to be going uphill all the way." When he was arrested and taken to the station house, "conditioned by my past experiences with policemen, I lost my temper and struck this officer. The police merely held my hands until I had regained my temper. Later the police showed some willingness to forget. I was told I could go home ... I got into my car and drove home. The road had flattened...
...Hiroshima, a few minutes past eight on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, 37-year-old Tomikazu Matsui, owner of the largest printing company in town, was bicycling past a big wooden building on his way to his office. At that moment the bomb burst. The building collapsed, spilled into the street. Matsui was buried in the wreckage. His arm was broken and his head deeply gashed, but he managed to crawl from the wreckage, staggered on to his plant half a kilometer away. There, where his great Sogo Printing Co. had stood, he found nothing but ruins...
Unusually mild weather for the past two months has helped speed construction work on the Jarvis Field Graduate Center dormitories sufficiently to enable Benjamin Thompson, of Architects Collaborative, Inc., to say last night that the project will be complete before the August 31 deadline. Thomposon noted, however, that severe shows could neutralize the present advantage...