Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College, however, has "guaranteed to be hardboiled" about admission requirements, according to LaCroix. Each DP must be able to speak English well and must pass aptitude tests before he can be admitted. He also must be proved psychologically sound. Various relief organizations will screen the DPs for the NSA program...
...poorer works. According to the gossipy Renaissance critic, Vasari, somebody once asked the 15th Century sculptor why he had made the saint look so stupid and clumsy, to which Donatello replied that it was all on purpose-he thought Ludovico must have been a sorry fellow to pass up the kingdom of Naples to become a monk...
...chairman." Donnelly brought forth a package and began to unwrap it. Someone yelled: "Don't break it, you clumsy bastard." Donnelly finally pulled out a gold-headed cane which he presented to the President, who said emotionally that he would use it every morning on his walks and pass it on to his daughter. He added: "Perhaps some day she can give it to my grandson...
...grandly advocated the "grand design." All that Europe heard from Britain on the subject now was what one U.S. newsman called "the dull plop-plop" of Ernie Bevin's speeches, urging step-by-step progress. A British M.P. last week explained: "The French plan is an effort to pass on to some kind of European government the problems which the French government has so much trouble solving. Some call it 'escapism.' I prefer to call it the search for a short...
Readers who find false beards passe may as well pass up The Dukays, even though the publishers are boosting it as their "major book for the spring of 1949," and Author Lajos Zilahy as "Hungary's foremost novelist." The Dukays was a Hungarian bestseller in 1947; probably nothing but a popular revolt against tinsel fiction can stop it from being equally successful...