Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman called a special session of Congress to pass drastic anti-labor legislation...
...shin & shoulder pads, ankle-length underwear, skates and stovepipe pants, skated onto the ice before Montreal's largest hockey crowd of the season (12,674). Once during the evening, against the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs, the crowds got what they came to see. There was a pass, a swift attack by Richard on the cage, a flick of his stick; and The Rocket had scored. The stands rang with cowbells, cheers and whistles...
...Pass-Man," that prewar animal who was happy just to get by in his studies, has all but vanished from Oxford. Many veterans are taking speed-up Honors courses, cramming nine terms into five. Sighed one sad Old Oxonian: "The colleges seem to be declining from homes of learning to mere hives of students...
...bomb is feasible and immediately decides to delete Hiroshima. (The scene now includes mention of sleepless White House nights.) M-G-M had to soothe some people who invaded territory still more remote from atomic security. A comic scene, in which Robert Walker (playing a major) makes a pass at a girl, was killed because the Army regarded it as detrimental to the dignity of a major's rank. Still another casualty was the film's only sure-fire chuckle-which had been placed, with fantastic bad taste, en route to Hiroshima. The laugh: a flyer asks...
...should be evident that non-professional censors, despite their good intentions, have neither the personal experience nor critical understanding with which to pass intelligently upon matters of public entertainment. And psychologists tell us that people actively concerned with the morals of others usually live in subconscious glass houses all their own. The state boards of reviews, rather than serving any real purpose, merely provide sinecure for devoted elderly politicians. If, as it is generally agreed, some overall non-public form of film review is needed, it would be best to leave it solely in the hands of one professional group...