Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-range solutions to the nation's many problems were offered. Congress did pass the Case antistrike bill, but Harry Truman vetoed it. The Senate saved the country from one piece of ill-advised legislation when it killed the President's plan to draft strikers into the Army. Both houses passed a bill to streamline Congress. After one of their most earnest debates, they also set up an all-civilian commission to control atomic energy. Antilynching, anti-poll tax, fair-employment measures were lost in the weeds of filibuster...
Berlin had taught a lesson which the Russians applied to all Germany. In the capital, which was the one place in Germany where goods, ideas, people and publications pass freely back & forth among zones, the Western Powers had proved themselves stronger. A secret poll in Greater Berlin last week showed that only 18% of Berliners were more friendly to Russia than to the Western Powers...
...thousands of Armenians, have been shuttling for the last three months from Mediterranean ports through the Dardanelles toward Russia. One of the ships, the former Italian liner Saturnia (rechristened Rossia), brought gasps from disconsolate Turkish citizens on Istanbul's docks: it was the biggest vessel ever to pass through the Bosporus...
...Russian and Turkish soldiers who man their common frontier have evolved even in this ticklish period a code of ethics. As they march along either side of the river, the Russian soldiers turn their backs when the Turkish soldiers pass, and the Turks do the same when the Russians pass. Some of the more boisterous Turks yell across to the Russians. But the Russians stolidly, silently continue their...
...withdrawal from India will leave Afghanistan with only one powerful neighbor. The extra enthusiasm of Jash'n Istiklal last week might have been connected with the Government's doubt as to how long they would keep their 27-year-old independence after the British left the Khyber Pass...