Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece de resistance--pugilism--almost came to pass when Bill Callagy, the Indians' losing pitcher, was restrained from committing mayhem on John Caulfield in the seventh inning of the finale...
...French, live in thatched huts with dirt floors, suffer from worms, decaying teeth, malaria and tuberculosis. A UNESCO expert, armed with films, books, posters and phonograph records, will work with a Haitian Government team to teach the fundamentals of hygiene, flood control, modern agriculture, the three Rs. UNESCO will pass on what it learns to teams in Asia, Africa, South America...
...murder trial, someone raises the question: is the defendant sane? Drs. Cohen & Coffin think it might be easy to tell after a look at the crime itself; if it conforms closely to the psychotic pattern, the murderer is probably insane. If such tests became common, could a sane murderer pass himself off as a crazy man by deliberately mimicking the psychotic pattern? Not likely, think Cohen & Coffin: a murderer in his right mind has a certain hesitancy about carving up his female relatives in the town square at high noon...
...poor Aurélien. Two fat volumes after he falls for little, country-bred Berenice, this normally irresistible Paris playboy has hardly mussed her hair. Berenice is waiting for the perfect spiritual as well as physical love-though willing to take on a casual lover to help the time pass. To offset Aurélien's tedious lack of success with Berenice, Aragon keeps several other affairs going at a gamy clip in & out of bedrooms. No coincidence is too blatant, no cliche worn too smooth: ("How's Martha? I wasn't going...
...scarce in the afternoon affair, as Wolcott yielded three hits and an equal number of walks in the first three frames, and then turned back the last 18 Varsity batters in order. Reilly, who gave up only five singles, walked Chad Brewer to open the first inning--the only pass he issued--and singles by Toby Fullerton and Bob Gallagher after two men were out produced the only score...