Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-man majority, Justice Hugo Black proclaimed eloquently and forcefully the wisdom of separating church & state. Cried Black: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government . . . can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. . . . No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions ... whatever form they may adopt...
...make the shrimp test," was the way General George C. Marshall's wife, Katherine, described one of her social duties. At parties she serves the Secretary of State as a sort of poison-taster, she explained. Anything with shrimp in it makes him pass out cold...
...Pass Out Bats. Kennedy and Treasurer Jimmy Adichi, 25, American-born Japanese veteran of the Italian campaign, soon ran into trouble. Apartment superintendents, paid by established companies for exclusive rights to peddle milk in their buildings, barred the Servicemen's Dairy. Kennedy threatened to turn them in to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He had shrewdly suspected that they had not reported their take on their income tax. The superintendents gave in. When the C.I.O. tied up all other dairies in a strike, the Servicemen went right on delivering. The union threatened violence. Kennedy passed out baseball bats...
Young life is breathed On the glass; The world that was not Comes to pass...
...days before his assassination, Lincoln visits ruined Richmond in the company of some Union officers. He is immediately recognized by Negroes, who kneel before him, singing hymns. He js "much embarrassed," but listens respectfully, then makes a little speech. Finally he says, "There, now, let me pass on; I have but little time to spare," walks away slowly up the hot, dusty street, carrying "his hat in his hand, fanning his face," from which the sweat trickles...