Word: pas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literary allusion that no Frenchman applied to the bluff of a weak France trying to carry out a strong-arm foreign policy was a line from Edmond Rostand's Chantecler: "Quand le paon n'est pas là, le dindon fait la roue-When the peacock is away, the turkey spreads his tail...
Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant were on edge. At a soccer game in Hama an Arab crowd began yelling "Pas de goal" ("Block that kick"). Sensitive Frenchmen thought they heard "A has De Gaulle" ("Down with De Gaulle"). That did it. Rioting spread from Hama to Horns and then to Damascus. The wild Djebel Druse country rose. Last week the trouble between Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant (TIME, June 4) suddenly became the world's trouble...
Married. Charles ("Charley") Grapewin, 69, onetime circus acrobat, novelist and vaudevillian, whose cackling portrayals of cinema pas and grandpas (The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath) have made his amiable old fox's face familiar to millions of cinemaddicts; and Loretta McGowan Becker, 46, handsome Chicago divorcee; both for the second time; in Chicago...
Mused Dr. Caldwell: "I wonder if the presence of repellent charges on flakes is responsible for the curious way they swirl down sometimes, always keeping clear of each other. Could be, n'est-ce pas...
...eight Nazi saboteurs who landed in the U.S. by submarine in June 1942 led the FBI to Krepper. As the FBI methodically ran every inch of the saboteurs' clothing through invisible-ink developers, an address appeared on a plain white handkerchief. It was: "Pas [Pastor] Krepper, Route 2, Rahway...