Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sale. In Chicago, a salesman made a pass at 104-lb. Prudence Tolkach, an amateur wrestler's daughter, who threw him with a full nelson, grabbed him in a hammer lock and beat him against'the floor, tossed him again with a body slam, conked him with a clock as he fled for his life...
Still to be voted on was the rest of next year's military budget-now a big proposed $11.6 billion. Congress might knock out some items, such as the 80,000-ton carrier which the Navy yearned for. Congress was less than likely to pass universal military training, which was down for $400 million. But in the end the total defense appropriations would be around $14 billion, which was even more than the Finletter Commission, in its most anxious moments four months ago, had thought necessary for national defense. There were no bargains, yet, in defense...
...several of the poorer items in this sixth issue of "Wake" were not so blatantly characteristic of a certain persistent type of writing, I would by-pass them entirely in favor of the better pieces, which comprise the bulk of the magazine. But when creations such as Austryn Wainhouse's "Selection: The Peripateties," typical of that irritating sort of writing that requires the reader to approach it as if it were a puzzle, continue to appear in magazine after magazine, there is good reason to offer a hesitant objection. I say hesitant, because baffled as surely...
...pages won't be parchment and the subject in far from sacred but it shall come to pass on the 21st of May, that which all Kirkland House men hold holy will be published and it will be called The Deacon's Testament...
...sports setup to catch their interest, first-year men have formed non-athletic habits which they have carried like a plague to the Houses. But if a sound and attractive program can introduce Freshmen to the joys of softball, basketball, and other sports, they will be less inclined to pass blindly by the hopeful athletic notices posted on House bulletin boards...