Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Service officers will be required to spend their leaves in the U.S. every two years, must pass at least three of their first 15 years of service on assignments in the U.S. The idea: to keep officers in step with the U.S. viewpoint, to freshen democratic outlooks frequently fuzzed by overlong foreign exposure...
...first test rangy, graceful Jackie Robinson had to pass was a session at the plate in spring training. On the mound were some fastball pitchers, some of them Southerners. There was a feeling that one of them might try "spinning his cap" (pitching at his head). They didn't, but Jackie Robinson was blazing the way for other Negro ballplayers and he Was jittery...
Homans went through the bridge with only a short lead and Felt seemed destined to pass him. Just as Felt had pulled clear of the bridge and was settling down to make his last sprint he caught a "crab." His bad stroke tipped the narrower single and Felt was washed out of the race by the tainted waters of the Charles. Homans went on to win the heat with a time...
...heat was turned up under the simmering political pots in New York and they began to boil. The machine-run nominating conventions were only a couple of weeks off. It was getting closer to the time when top politicos would have to pick their men, pass the word to the rank-&-file...
...that their chance of winning in November depended on piling up an immense majority in New York City. Could a Mead-Lehman ticket do it? The realistic answers came out no. But it was too late to head off Jim Mead. Perhaps it was not too late to by-pass Herbert Lehman for Fiorello, New York City's best vote getter of modern times...