Word: pas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lampooners have found plenty of trouble (and publicity) for themselves in their long string of semi-intentional faux pas, and when, in 1933, they made off with the Sacred Cod from the State House on Beacon Hill, the Crimson had this...
Franz Schoenberner, who now lives in New York City and is working on another book, was reared in the rarest air of German intellectualism. Son of a Berlin pas tor, he was subject to spasms of brattish rage, until his adoring mother taught him how much safer it was to hurl abstract arguments instead of "all kinds of physical objects." By the time he was 13, sharp-witted Franz had logically argued his sisters into incurable neuroses, and ruled the household with an "intellectual regime of terror [that] would have been impossible in any other atmosphere than that...
Laval turned philosopher. To a fellow prisoner going to death he said: "Ne t'en fais pas: it lasts only a few seconds . . . it's like being killed in a bus accident on the Place...
These men and others like them had gone into northern Canada in mid-summer 1942 to build and maintain air bases on the "Northeast Staging Route to Europe." They had manned the $1,700,000 runways, barracks and hospital at The Pas, the $9,300,000 establishment at Churchill on the west shore of Hudson Bay,* the $7,000,000 base at Southampton Island's Coral Harbor (socalled because of the tropical fossils found there). But the great air ferry route was hardly used: the route via Labrador and Iceland proved more feasible. The first...
Those who pas will be sent to pre-flight training, being transferred at that time to the status of Aviation Cadet, Class V-5. The present schedule calls for 29 weeks of pre-flight training, 16 weeks of primary flight training, and approximately 20 weeks of intermediate flight training...