Word: pas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to give the Soviet regime a clean bill of health in respect of religious freedom ... is far more shocking than the tactical faux pas of Mr. Lindbergh, who mentioned the Jewish influence as a factor in pushing this country into...
Hands clasped over sword hilt, Admiral Gouton sat in the High Commissioner's office and ne bougeait pas. Unless the Allied commanders called on him first, he would not budge. General Georges Catroux, who commanded the Free French in the Syrian campaign, equally refused to make the first gesture. At last General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the Allied Commander in Chief, went in and got the Admiral to come out. When he left the building, trumpets flourished...
...When not seeking re-election he is the Senate's fanciest-dressed man, with a pas sion for bow ties, double-breasted suits and colored shirts...
...chair so that she could breathe. "One night [Mère] woke suffocating. Mother said: 'It will be all right, it will pass. . . .' But Mère gasped: 'C'est la mort.' Mother leaned to her and whispered: 'Tu n'as pas peur?' Mère steadied herself on the arms of her chair and said distinctly and firmly...
...some other new ballets: Three Virgins and a Devil (by Agnes de Mille), a Daliesque-Italian-primitive trifle in which a monkey-like Satan deftly garners three damsels; an enlarged version of Billy the Kid (by Eugene Loring, with music by Aaron Copland), a rich, loamy piece of Americana; Pas de Quatre (Anton Dolin), reconstructing the performance which the four greatest 19th Century ballerinas gave before Queen Victoria...