Word: pas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dividends. Though it survived the war, unlike 50% of Japan's 132 dailies, General MacArthur soon divorced the paper from government control, ordered all Times stock to be sold to its employees. The Times seldom massacres its chosen language, thanks to crack translators. Most of its memorable faux pas have been perpetrated by foreign-born journalists who know little of Japanese customs. Readers still chuckle over a story written for the Times by an American woman who dined unwittingly at Tokyo's most notorious whorehouse, burbled at artless length in the paper about the "attractive girls...
From Cook County Hospital, Dr. Daniel S. Kushner reported that a related germ, Mycobacterium fortuitum, can cause a disease like tuberculosis in mice. It is resistant to streptomycin and PAS (para-aminosalicylic acid) but it can be killed by isoniazid and also by the antibiotic tetracycline...
...piano reduction of Claudio spies Music for a Ballet, an orchestral score which won the 1956 Nadia Boulanger Prize, was performed by Ann Besser and Rzewski. The work is in four movements--Prelude, Vivace, Pantomine, and Pas d'action. It is impossible to judge a symphonic piece fairly after hearing it on the piano. The repeated-chord figurations which were so annoying would probably have been effective, had they been lightly chanted by a woodwind choir (or even played much more softly on the pianos). The melodies that could be heard above the accompanimental material were often charming and expressive...
Every year half of America's potential college students pas up an opportunity for higher education. Every year, government, industry, and education unite to deplore this drain on the national resources. Each group also annually asserts that the problem can be solved by spending more money...
President Coty had already decided to do just that. The man he sent for was 50-year-old Socialist Party Leader Guy Mollet, the onetime English teacher from Pas-de-Calais (TIME, Jan. 23). After some tight dickering with his electoral ally, Pierre Mendès-France, Mollet settled on a Cabinet, giving Mendès the job of Deputy Premier without portfolio (instead of Foreign Minister, which Mendes desired). For Foreign Minister he reached instead into his own party for Good European Christian Pineau. 51, stepson of Playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux and himself an author...