Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal's social program. He "seriously doubted" if anything could be done about civil rights. "We had a program that couldn't possibly be enacted by any Congress in seven months," he added (though Harry Truman, a year ago, had said that the "terrible" 80th Congress could pass a comparable program in 15 days, if it really wanted...
...jeep driver, noting that old holes in the road near Nagasaki had been filled in: "I hope this guy comes here more often. This is the first comfortable ride I've had." Schoolchildren swept streets and sidewalks with small brooms hours before the Emperor was scheduled to pass. This practice -; led Japanese Communists and many Americans to speak of Hirohito as hoki san, or "the broom...
Like a crapehanger whose predicted misfortune has finally come to pass, U.S. steelmen felt a certain grim satisfaction. When President Truman demanded expansion of steel capacity five months ago (TIME, Jan. 17), steelmen answered that the proposal was nonsense. The postwar demand for steel, they said, would soon overtake itself. Last week it began to look...
More Payload. Vickers-Armstrong claims that the Viscount 700, the first turboprop airliner to pass its structural aerodynamic tests, has already proved itself superior to comparable airplanes powered with piston engines. It burns more fuel, but it carries a ton of extra payload because of the lightness of its engines. It cruises at 325 m.p.h. with 40 passengers, and is designed for short or medium runs, such as London-Paris and London-Rome...
Crack the Whip. Foote has a good deal to say about Soviet spy-recruiting methods and the whip-cracking tactics of the Moscow chiefs. As valuable as the spies themselves, he says, are the party members and fellow travelers who pass on information, sometimes innocently, which the best of spies could never hope...