Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finnish frontier. A captain, in the green-tabbed uniform of the Soviet Security Police, and a buxom woman interpreter came into my compartment. The woman pulled my bed apart and turned over the mattress. The pair found only one thing which pleased them: the embossed, lavender-colored propusk (pass) to Red Square for the May Day parade. The woman said in awe: "Neither of us has ever seen one of these. . . . Did you see Stalin...
...portress stopped me by the cloakroom at the main entrance. "Where is your pass...
...have no pass," I said, "I simply want to see a little of the library...
...part of it without a pass," she proclaimed...
...explained that I was an American correspondent. She became my champion. She went to a phone and began calling people. Finally: "Go out and to the far side of the library. There you can get a visitor's pass...