Word: pas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduction to the concert by Harrison and a sitar and sarod duet by Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, a meeting of the superstars of the East as Shankar and Khan rarely appear on stage together. Shankar and Khan faced a Western audience that managed to commit the faux pas of clapping after the musicians finished tuning, thinking that they had finished playing a song, but they managed to sound not too upset and rendered a beautiful performance...
...afternoon's suspense was caused by Yale junior Dick Jauron, who ran for 145 yards, scored one touchdown, and completed a vital two-point conversion on a screen pas that sent Yale into the lead...
Colors vibrate, as blue and orange miniskirted girls are exposed to join pink-leotarded males. From behind-the-fence gossiping, the dancers move into frolicking pas de deuxs, jealous love spats and seductions, and oblivious chasings of unreachable flying objects...
...were, to set their very stuns'ls in pursuit of their elusive literary quarry. As for the rest of us, one is put in mind of the French Gourmet Brillat-Savarin, who was once offered grapes for dinner. "Non, merci" he briskly replied, "je ne prends pas mon vin en pilules...
...Sato looked uncharacteristically menacing as he complained that "there could not have been a more outrageous case of interference in domestic matters." Later, however, Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda added that for that very reason, he could not believe so experienced a diplomat as Trezise would commit such a faux pas...