Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned 30 when he met her in 1924. According to one version, the meeting took place at a ball in Bucharest's officers' club. According to another, he saw her at the opera, and winked at her. According to a third, she waited for his car to pass on a dark road near Bucharest, her clothes disheveled as though she had been in an accident, and permitted herself to be rescued. At any rate, Carol Hohenzollern fell deeply in love with Elena Lupescu; she became his mistress, and everyone who read the Sunday supplements during the last...
...government machinery will roughly parallel that of the U.S., with a Senate and Chamber of Deputies, a Supreme Court with the power to pass on the constitutionality of laws. The President will be elected for a four-year term by direct universal suffrage, but cannot succeed himself for two following terms. Most controversial measure: the power given the President, subject to the approval of Congress, to order the "preventive detention of persons who there is reason to believe are implicated" in plans to overthrow the Government...
...Olympic games will not be held until next summer. Between last June 28, when the Crimson champions assembled in the same boat for the last time as a unit, and the spring of 1948 when the U. S. representative is chosen, a lot of water--pardon the expression--will pass under the Larz Anderson Bridge. And the shell-load Coach Tom Bolles will finally call his "number one beat" for competition as the Varsity next spring will have unfamiliar figures in at least three slides--stroke, four, and two--as well as a new coxswain...
...must go to an office under the bookstacks," he said. "There they are qualified to issue a temporary pass. You would never find it. It is far too complicated. I will summon an escort...
...answer was held up as a newsreel cameraman shouted for everybody to "hold it for a minute." Then the laughing ladies and their officer escorts again started up the aisles. Captain Watanabe waited patiently for them to pass. "I was to accompany Admiral Yamamoto that day," he said, "but I was ordered to remain behind to adjust some tactical matters-unfortunately...